Re: Lilypond 64-bit binaries

[David Kastrup]

Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:17 PM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
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>> The Guile team won't bother about Guile 1.8,
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> In fact, they said they’d try to help, though I don’t expect much.
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> and Guile 2.x (apart from
>> the command line executable) does not run reliably with 2.20.0 (and with
>> awful performance) and still has significant problems with 2.21.0 to
>> come.
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>> So which version of libguile are you building with?
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> 1.8.  I know it’s obsolete, but I thought it was the only version that
> worked decently with LilyPond.  Am I wrong?

No, not yet.  We'll get there one day, hopefully.

> (The fact that we’re using such outdated dependencies worries me for
> precisely the reason that it’s hard to get support for them if something
> goes wrong.)

If getting support for Guile-2 were easy, migration would not have taken
as long as it still does.

-- 
David Kastrup