Yes, exactly. We don't use patches and code replacements are avoided as much as possible.
Em ter., 5 de out. de 2021 às 09:53, Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> escreveu: > Folks, > > Am 05.10.21 um 14:39 schrieb Jefferson Felix: > > No problem, I was just pointing out the reasons why Guile 1.8.8 was > > not approved by the homebrew core. I even believe this will help > > advance Guile 2 compatibility, and certainly the Lilypond development > > community will pick up on any bugs. > > > > > To follow up on Jeans remarks: Maybe (if it's not already the case) > > it would be a good idea if your LilyPond version would show a message > > regarding Guile 2 on startup > > > > We did something similar when we build TeXLive for homebrew, showing a > > message that it's a Homebrew distribution (something like TeXLive > > 2021/Homebrew). But TeXLive has a way to do this without touching the > > source code. I'm going to check Lilypond's build documentation if it's > > possible to do something like this. > > Would it be considered reasonable to hard-wire a special startup message > in LilyPond proper if it is being built with Guile2 (or rather: detects > guile-2 on startup)? > > The new Homebrew build uses guile2, and I suggested they turn the > startup message > > GNU LilyPond 2.22.0 > > into something like > > GNU LilyPond 2.22.0 (Guile 2 build) > > to aid debugging, and if I understand Jefferson correctly, they do not > want to touch the source code themselves. > > Lukas > > -- --- Jefferson dos Santos Felix
