"H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:36:02AM +0000, Dr Nicholas Bailey wrote: >> Watch out for Debian. There isn't a Lilypond in Testing (Stretch) >> AFAIK. It's because they've removed the old scheme version. I develop >> in Testing in the hope that by the time I get around to releasing >> anything, it will be compatible with Stable :) Stable released rather >> infrequently, but I use it on our servers and it is very, well, >> *stable*. >> >> It's easy to install the Stable lilypond debian package on a Testing >> Debian box, fortunately. Debian is my favourite distro: I've tried >> others but always returned. Shame about the scheme thing, but it will >> sort itself out sooner or later (if it hasn't already!). I guess the >> clue's in the distribution name: "Testing" ;) > [...] > > I've been able to get Lilypond 2.19 to work in Debian/testing by > compiling from source (lilypond git HEAD) with `./configure > --enable-guile2`. There are some Scheme-related deprecation warning > messages that show up while lilypond is running, but otherwise it seems > to be working just fine.
If you never use a non-ASCII character and are satisfied with the speed of LilyPond dropping to less than a third and its memory requirements rising. This is not a viable option for serious work. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
