Re: Blockers for Guile 2.2

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 17/03/2022 à 22:38, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, dem 17.03.2022 um 22:10 +0100 schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
> > > Le 17 mars 2022 à 20:35, Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de a écrit :
> > >
> > > Now merged. And while you can continue building with Guile 1.8 (for
> > > now), I hope we can remove that code soon after the next release. So
> > > please don't do this and switch your builds to Guile 2.2 🙂
> > One more thing: I suppose you want an unstable release to happen rather
> > sooner than later now there we're on Guile 2, is there a moment planned?
> > This is a mere curiosity question.
> Yes, and unless somebody objects with good reasons, I'd like to manage
> the releases for some time now. (So far, I may have often done some
> preparatory work, but Phil did the actual release commits, built using
> GUB and uploaded the results.) But no concrete date planned yet, we
> (Han-Wen and me) need to discuss how the source tarball gets uploaded
> to lilypond.org and how to update the online documentation. If that
> goes really fast, maybe this weekend but rather unlikely, I would say.



OK, thanks. One other thought in passing: should we
write to maintainers of popular distros to let them know
that we've switched to Guile 2?