Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:19:01PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: >> >> > I don't see a need to support both guile 1.8.x and guile 2.0.x at the >> > same time -- as far as I'm concerned, we can drop any guile-1.x-isms >> > as soon as 2.15 begins. >> >> As long as guile is not included with Lilypond, supporting the last >> stable version in reasonably up-to-date operating system distributions >> is definitely going to help maintain a healthy developer base. > > Hence my absolute insistance on having the required version of > guile 2.x in lilydev. Admittedly, I overlooked people using linux > natively. My initial guess is that such people (including myself) > are more than capable of compiling and install guile from source,
If your only use of guile-dev is Lilypond, maybe. Other than that, things are going to become a nuisance. > I know that David already knows this, but for the benefit of > anybody else reading this email who might be confused: lilypond > GUB includes guile, so we're not talking about people who want to > test 2.15. This only affects people wanting to compile lilypond > from source, i.e. developers and contributors. That's what I mean with "maintain a healthy developer base". -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
