Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: > I'm curious: Is there anything new w.r.t. guile 2.0? We had a lot of > talk, but recently there was only silence... In particular, is > version 2.0.11 good enough for lilypond?
I differ with "we had a lot of talk". There was a lot of talk about how important it would be if somebody bothered to do stuff. I got rid of all the compilation errors and load order problems. All of that is in master. There is still some encoding problem with the PostScript output, and there is a dev/guilev2 branch where this encoding problem is absent at the cost of rather invasive changes that don't allow for compilation with GUILEv1 any more (all of the changes in master require --enable-guile2 to compile with GUILE2). Either way, the binary crashes frequently. Garbage collection appears to be rather hosed, particularly egregiously regarding the actions of remove-first and remove-empty flags (namely, explicit suicide of systems). In spite of all the talk (including those from GUILE maintainers), there is no indication that anybody but myself ever bothered actually compiling the GUILEv2 version or contributing to debugging/redesigning any code at all. A reasonably simple task, for example, would be figuring out just _what_ change in the dev/guilev2 branch is responsible for fixing the PostScript generation problem. That's rather tedious work akin to bijection (just manual, and with code). The result would be that a version compiled using GUILE2.0 would be generating proper PostScript and one could focus better on fixing the crashes. However, since debugging the crashes does not really depend on the PostScript encoding problem, and since nobody could be bothered investing any work in looking at the GUILEv2 version, let alone making progress on the crashes, this seems like a pretty academical feat. Personally, I have a rather low frustration tolerance, and saying about half a year "haven't you fixed that on your own yet?" is not likely to lead to fabulous results. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
