Re: GUILE 2.2 progress

[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.

-- 
David Kastrup