On Sun 24 Jan 2021 at 17:43:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Jonas Hahnfeld <[email protected]> writes: > > Am Sonntag, dem 24.01.2021 um 17:31 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: > >> Jonas Hahnfeld <[email protected]> writes: > >> > Am Sonntag, dem 24.01.2021 um 16:52 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: > >> > > Jonas Hahnfeld <[email protected]> writes: > >> > > > Am Sonntag, dem 24.01.2021 um 00:54 +0100 schrieb Valentin Petzel: > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Lilypond transitioned to guile 2. > >> > > > > >> > > > No, it didn't. The default and only supported version right now is > >> > > > Guile 1.8 and that's what is shipped in the official binary releases. > >> > > > If your distribution provides you with LilyPond compiled against > >> > > > Guile > >> > > > 2.2, file a bug with them (I know that at least Fedora 33 and Debian > >> > > > sid do at the time of writing). > >> > > > >> > > Sure about Debian sid? They used to include a private version of > >> > > libguile-1.8 inside. I have no idea why they would have changed that. > >> > > >> > They did for 2.22.0, see > >> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lilypond/-/commit/c1a0c9179857599fc495d93f6d7579b64bd127b6 > >> > >> Anybody contacted him or anyone else responsible here for saying that > >> this is a really, really, bad idea? > > > > I tried to ping him on GitLab after I learned this week that Fedora did > > the same (now fixed for upcoming Fedora 34; the current Fedora 33 still > > has lilypond-2.21.6-1.fc33 built against Guile 2.2 AFAICT). Now CC'ing > > his email, occurred to me only now... > > > >> It is probably a result of our configuration procedure not requiring > >> hoops to jump through for going to Guile-2+ anymore: that spreads the > >> impression that this is a desirable configuration. > > > > Maybe, but a 2 second startup delay doesn't make for a good UX... > > You cannot expect distribution maintainers to actively use/test the > software in question under a serious workload.
Is the guile 1.8 tree that's shipped with the LP source maintained by the upstream LP team or the Debian/Fedora/other maintainers? Cheers, David.
