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
