Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-06-01 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
On Thu, 2022-05-26 at 18:43 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 26/05/2022 à 18:40, Jean-Charles Malahieude a écrit : > > If you'd prefer to have the documentation duly translated, it is > > preferable to let some time for the job to be accomplished. > > Well, we're talking about a stable release

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-26 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 26/05/2022 à 23:19, Dan Eble a écrit : I have "fire in the belly" to finish a \caesura command that engraves marks, divisiones, and bar lines. I hope I can do it by the beginning of autumn. I have quite a number of substantial projects as well. In my humble opinion, we can adjust the

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-26 Thread Dan Eble
On May 26, 2022, at 12:12, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> 1) Target a release towards the end of this year, but do not deprecate >> things in anticipation of a new major version after; instead go for a >> "regular" 2.26.0 afterwards. > > I think there's reasonable agreement that this is a > good

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-26 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 26/05/2022 à 18:40, Jean-Charles Malahieude a écrit : Le 26/05/2022 à 18:12, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : Le 22/05/2022 à 14:39, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development a écrit : Hi all, with the unstable releases switched over to Guile 2.2, I think it might be a good

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-26 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 26/05/2022 à 18:12, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : Le 22/05/2022 à 14:39, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development a écrit : Hi all, with the unstable releases switched over to Guile 2.2, I think it might be a good idea to think about the next stable release. The last time, for

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-26 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 22/05/2022 à 14:39, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development a écrit : Hi all, with the unstable releases switched over to Guile 2.2, I think it might be a good idea to think about the next stable release. The last time, for 2.22.0 in early 2021, we kind of coincidentally

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread Dan Eble
On May 22, 2022, at 08:39, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development wrote: > > So, what do people think: Would targeting a release towards the end of > this year be a reasonable thing? probably — Dan

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
On Sun, 2022-05-22 at 17:04 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > We aren't talking about "switching" but "supporting". It is the > business of the distribution makers to decide which version to ship, and > particularly if they are not thorough users of some software themselves, > they'll tend to select

Guile 3.0 (was: Thinking about the next stable release)

2022-05-22 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 22/05/2022 à 17:04, David Kastrup a écrit : [...] Also see guile$ git shortlog -ns --since="2 months ago" 2  Timothy Sample 1  Ludovic Courtès 1  Mikael Djurfeldt Well, it's the stable release branch. What would be the development branch? $ git branch --show-current

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > MacPorts' Guile package is 2.2: > https://ports.macports.org/port/guile/ > and it doesn't even look like it has Guile 3: > https://ports.macports.org/search/?q=guile=on > > I am not under the impression that everyone would > applaude if we switched to Guile 3.0. Not as

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 22/05/2022 à 16:46, Luca Fascione a écrit : On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 4:20 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: Homebrew too: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/guile@2#default I agree with everything else you said. But for completeness, homebrew defaults to guile3, it seems to me:

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 22/05/2022 à 15:39, David Kastrup a écrit : Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development writes: The reason I'm explicitly looking at Debian is that they currently bundle Guile 1.8 in their package, which also serves as the basis for Ubuntu's package. I'm sure they would be more

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development writes: > The reason I'm explicitly looking at Debian is that they currently > bundle Guile 1.8 in their package, which also serves as the basis for > Ubuntu's package. I'm sure they would be more than happy to get rid of > that  Once it

Re: Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 22/05/2022 à 14:39, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development a écrit : Hi all, with the unstable releases switched over to Guile 2.2, I think it might be a good idea to think about the next stable release. The last time, for 2.22.0 in early 2021, we kind of coincidentally

Thinking about the next stable release

2022-05-22 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
Hi all, with the unstable releases switched over to Guile 2.2, I think it might be a good idea to think about the next stable release. The last time, for 2.22.0 in early 2021, we kind of coincidentally aligned with the Debian freeze timeline for Bullseye. For the next release, Debian 12