Guile 3.0 (was: Thinking about the next stable release)

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 22/05/2022 à 17:04, David Kastrup a écrit :
> [...]
> > Also see
> >
> > guile$ git shortlog -ns --since="2 months ago"
> >       2  Timothy Sample
> >       1  Ludovic Courtès
> >       1  Mikael Djurfeldt
> Well, it's the stable release branch.


What would be the development branch?

$ git branch --show-current
main
$ git shortlog -ns v3.0.8..HEAD
     6  Ludovic Courtès
     2  Timothy Sample
     1  Andy Wingo
     1  Mikael Djurfeldt
     1  Rob Browning
     1  Sergei Trofimovich
     1  Vijay Marupudi



> [...]
> No, Guile is in trouble then.  I mean, it is in trouble now.  But if
> distributors can easily do version-hopping on their own initiative and
> end up with one version of Guile they are going to ship for their whole
> distro, it would be good if that does not end up in making LilyPond
> disappear.  That's all.
>
> What we _recommend_ and use ourselves is an entirely different matter.


OK, but in that case, what is your request concretely?
Current LilyPond master works with Guile 3.0. Do you
want to add it to the CI?

Jean