On Friday, January 03, 2014 11:04:20 PM you wrote: > Thomas Spuhler <[email protected]> writes: > > Now that Lilypond-2.8.0 has been released, what is the chance of > > migrating it to guile-2? > > You mean 2.18.0. The chance is exactly zero: this is a major > undertaking which will not be done in a stable release series. The next > chance is in the unstable 2.19 series or 2.20.0 probably released in a > year or so. > > > We (Mageia) are close to releasing mageia4 incl. lilypond-2.18.0 with > > guile-1.8 > > Many users will be complaining because all other packages using guile > > are now ported to and require > > guile-2 (including gnucash) or have been dropped > > Guile-1.8 again doesn't build anymore and there isn't much of an > > incentive to fix it, but it will be > > dropped in favor of guile-2 only > > The result would be no more Lilypond after the Mageia4 release if > > lilypond isn't ported to guile-2 > > If you look at distrowatch, we usually rank number 4 or even 3. There > > should be an incentive to get > > it ported. > > Feel free to port. If your priorities for Mageia will make you remove > LilyPond, of course that's your decision. The precompiled LilyPond > packages on our download side will likely continue to work in an > emergency, but of course they are not managed by your package manager.
Now that Mageia4 is out with Lilypond-2.18.0. We are working on the next version to be release around Christmas 2014. Lilypond is now the only package (Gnucash has been ported to and Requires Guile-2) that requires Guile < 2.0. I have built Lilypond-2.19.3 with Guile-1.8. That said, Guile-1.8 gets more and more difficult to build and I am afraid it's going to be dropped from our next Distribution release and as a result Lilypond will not be in the next release by the end of 2014 unless it will build and work with Guile-2. Is there a time-line for Lilypond with Guile-2? Will it be before November 2014? If not I am not going spend my time to put Lilypond-2.19.x into Cauldron (the Mageia development version) Thomas -- Best regards Thomas Spuhler All of my e-mails have a valid digital signature ID 60114E63
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