On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 21:33 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development wrote: > On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 18:31 +0100, Volodymyr Prokopyuk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems that LilyPond v2.23.81 depends on Guile v2.2. > > > > On Linux Arch systems (e. g. Manjaro) Guile v3.0.8 is installed by default. > > > > Currently LilyPond v2.23.81 requires Guile v2.2 as a mandatory dependency, > > which makes installation of the latest Lilypond versions from source > > problematic on Linux Arch systems. > > After the first release candidate, I was in contact with (one of) the > Arch Linux maintainer for LilyPond. I hope I can convince him to bring > back guile2.2 (and finally drop guile1.8 which lilypond was the only > package to keep alive).
FWIW this has happened now (thanks Caleb!): Arch has a new guile2.2 package, lilypond was updated to 2.24.0, and guile1.8 is gone for good. Cheers Jonas > > > How difficult the migration from Guile v2.2 to Guile v3.0.8 is for > > LilyPond? Can the migration be part of the LilyPond v2.24 release? > > As answered by Jean, it is possible to build LilyPond with Guile 3.0 > but it is for sure not recommended right now due to less testing and > will not be found by default during the 2.24 cycle.
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