Am 07.01.2017 um 09:59 schrieb David Kastrup: > "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. >
Unfortunately I ran into this very issue, changing from Debian stable (in the Linux Mint Debian Edition incarnation) to vanilla Debian testing. I did this because the PyQt5 packages in stable are too old to run current Frescobaldi from its Git repository. Now that I managed to get Frescobaldi running again I can't build LilyPond anymore because in Debian testing I don't have guile 1.8 anymore :-( For working *with* LilyPond it's not much of an issue to use the releases, but I can't work *on* LilyPond right now ... Urs -- [email protected] https://openlilylib.org http://lilypondblog.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
