Re: GUILE 2.2 progress

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Samstag, den 25.01.2020, 15:26 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
> <
> address@hidden
> > writes:
> 
> > Am Samstag, den 25.01.2020, 14:45 +0100 schrieb Thomas Morley:
> > > Am Sa., 25. Jan. 2020 um 13:48 Uhr schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys <
> > > address@hidden
> > > 
> > > > :
> > > > [...]
> > > > I think it is clear that we should not be targeting GUILE 2.0, but 
> > > > GUILE 2.2.
> > > 
> > > I dropped any work for guile-2.0 long ago.
> > > For me it's more the question whether we should entirely skip guile-2,
> > > going for guile-3 directly.
> > 
> > My 2 cents: Guile 3.0 was only released very recently, it's not even
> > available in rolling release distributions like Arch Linux. Most
> > certainly it will not be part of the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release?
> > Requiring Guile 2.2 would exclude (vanilla) Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7
> > which I think would be acceptable for master and future major versions
> > of LilyPond.
> 
> 16.04 is all very nice, but relying on non-updated legacy systems for
> proscribing the dependencies of a hot-of-the-presses release is not
> providing much of value.

me: "which I think would be acceptable for master and future major
versions" ?!?

Also I'm not proscribing anything, it was just a list of what would be
lost.

Jonas

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