On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 09:57 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 17/05/2022 à 00:29, Hendursaga a écrit : > > I'm trying to start a REPL server[1] inside LilyPond's Guile interpreter, > > but I can't get it to even load readline support. > > Readline support is an optional feature in Guile. It looks like > out new infrastructure for building binaries compiles Guile without > it. We may or may not want to do it (Readline is an extra dependency); > CCing Jonas on this matter.
Right, this is intentional. I don't find it convincing that the official binaries should be bigger for everybody to enable an optional feature (readline support) in a dependency (Guile) that only a very tiny fraction might ever try to use... Jonas
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