Re: Guile 2 support

[David Kastrup]

Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Fantastic work everyone with getting version 2.18 out of the door.
>
> When I saw the release notice, I immediately wanted to update the Homebrew
> formula (Homebrew is a package manager for Mac OS X). However, I was told
> by the maintainers that an update would not be accepted, unless Lilypond
> would compile with the default Guile which is currently 2.0.9.

Where is the point in not allowing an upgrade from one version requiring
GUILE 1 to another one requiring GUILE 1?

> I know that there have been plans of bumping to Guile 2 for a long
> time now. Is this something that is planned for the next release?

Oh, definitely.  It's not like it wasn't planned for 2.16 and 2.14.  But
somebody has to do the heavy lifting.

-- 
David Kastrup