Re: Problem: incompatible Lilypond and Guile

[David Kastrup]

mark damerell <address@hidden> writes:

> Thank you who replied. I think I should explain some background: I was
> trying to write a template which has bugs. (off-topic, I hope to
> post a new thread on "handbells").
>
> I got the exact same error with Guile 1.8.8+1-6ubuntu2
> Then I removed that and installed  Guile 2.0.5+1-1
> In general Lilypond seems to be working with both Guiles, I only get this
> error
> when I try to debug.
>
> Then I downloaded  Guile 2.0.11 from the gnu.org website and tried to build
> it.
> Configure failed (also off topic).
>
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote: [in part]
>
> ...
>
>> part
>> of it is stabbing around in the dark around bugs and undocumented areas
>> of GUILE 2.
>>
>>
> So why does the gnu.org website
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
>
> say that Guile 2.0.11 is stable?

Because fixes arrive only slowly and GUILE 2.2 is a moving target (try
compiling it: it will literally take an eternity, illustrating the
balance chosen between interpreting/compiling code and running it).

It's not like GUILEv1 was better in regard to bugs and undocumented
areas, but GUILEv2 is considerably more complex, and we haven't invested
as much time into GUILEv2 yet that we did in GUILEv1 in the first place.

-- 
David Kastrup