Re: Next releases

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Thu, 2023-01-12 at 02:17 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > Additionally I would have liked to target the last weekend of January /
> > early February for a bugfix release 2.24.1. Unfortunately, I haven't
> > heard back from the Debian people yet. As you may remember, the timing
> > for the stable release was chosen to make it possible to include
> > LilyPond 2.24.0 in the upcoming Debian Bookworm and a user also opened
> > a request: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1026200
> > However, in answering I discovered that Debian removed guile-2.2 for
> > the Bookworm release during November, after we had already branched.
> > Right now, they only have guile-3.0 which LilyPond doesn't officially
> > support.
> 
> Oh noooo... <facepalm>
> 
> Did anyone try to tell them that this was a bad idea? I mean, it's
> true that Guile 3.0 is already three years old, but so far compiling
> it for Windows requires trying branches that are kept more or less
> alive by some volunteers but not integrated into the main tree, so
> most people who want to write cross-platform software in Guile will
> need to use Guile 2.2.

Please have a look at the link I posted above. I already replied there
some time ago.

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