Bug#615479: libguile 2.0 packages for Debian / Ubuntu?
Dear Debian developers,
I got referred to this bug report by the ubuntu devs, who seem to depend on
you for packaging guile.
I'm one of the developers of LilyPond (the GNU music notation application),
and we heavily depend on guile (actually, large parts of lilypond are written
in guile).
Now, in February, guile 2.0 was released, which has a much improved garbage
collection (based on libgc), proper unicode support, compiled code and is MUCH
faster. So, we'd like to finally switch to guile 2.0 from guile 1.8.
Unfortunately, we depend on ubuntu packages of our dependencies (for our
documentation writers and the bug squad, which we cannot require to build
external dependencies manually; we even provide a custom ubuntu flavor called
lilydev with all the dependencies in place). So, we cannot switch to guile 2.0
until there are packages available.
Do you have any estimate when guile 2.0 packages will finally be available
for, so that we can start the switch (which might then take a few more months
on our part, because guile is really such an integral part of lilypond)?
Cheers,
Reinhold
PS: We just got a message from a packages of another distribution, who was
quite frustrated that lilypond still requires an outdated library, where the
latest stable release has been available for more than half a year.
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Reinhold Kainhofer, reinhold@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
* Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
* http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886
* LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
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