Dear Debian developers, I got referred to this bug report by the ubuntu devs, who seem to depend on you for packaging guile. I'm one of the developers of LilyPond (the GNU music notation application), and we heavily depend on guile (actually, large parts of lilypond are written in guile).
Now, in February, guile 2.0 was released, which has a much improved garbage collection (based on libgc), proper unicode support, compiled code and is MUCH faster. So, we'd like to finally switch to guile 2.0 from guile 1.8. Unfortunately, we depend on ubuntu packages of our dependencies (for our documentation writers and the bug squad, which we cannot require to build external dependencies manually; we even provide a custom ubuntu flavor called lilydev with all the dependencies in place). So, we cannot switch to guile 2.0 until there are packages available. Do you have any estimate when guile 2.0 packages will finally be available for, so that we can start the switch (which might then take a few more months on our part, because guile is really such an integral part of lilypond)? Cheers, Reinhold PS: We just got a message from a packages of another distribution, who was quite frustrated that lilypond still requires an outdated library, where the latest stable release has been available for more than half a year. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110051542.43227.reinh...@kainhofer.com
