On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, David Kastrup wrote: > Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > > > Could you point me at a list of guile 2.0 bugs which are affecting > > lilypond? Having that list handy would help me convince the guile > > maintainer (and also Debian's release managers and security) that > > there were valid reasons to keep guile 1.8 for another release of > > Debian. > > At the current point of time I cannot point to anything that I > consider beyond workaround. There are a number of stunners (for a > recent one, check out > <URL:http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18495>) that make it > likely that no application really uses the C APIs for interfacing data > into GUILE all that much.
Heh. Yeah... that's pretty bad. Probably following http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=guile;submitter=d...@gnu.org is good enough, then. > I am currently in the situation that when starting the regtests with > 10 processes, the processes crash one by one, with the last one > lasting a bit over a minute. Yeesh. > It's not clear how long I'll take to wear down the bugs. Half of them > are other things that go "ugh", like GUILE being of the opinion it > knows how to deal with various character encodings, reinterpreting > strings as byte streams and vice versa in situations where it does not > make sense. > > I'll probably have to tell GUILE "everything is in Latin-1" as a first > approach which will, of course, lead to its own share of problems. To > be fair, most of them are already in GUILE1. But at least they are > reasonably well-understood, as opposed to what GUILE2 does. Thanks for the additional information! (And sorry if my original e-mail sounded like I was pressuring y'all to do work; I'm just trying to keep lilypond in Debian.) -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I always thought violence didn't solve anything until one day it did. -- a softer world #470 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
