Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:36:02AM +0000, Dr Nicholas Bailey wrote:
> Watch out for Debian. There isn't a Lilypond in Testing (Stretch)
> AFAIK. It's because they've removed the old scheme version. I develop
> in Testing in the hope that by the time I get around to releasing
> anything, it will be compatible with Stable :) Stable released rather
> infrequently, but I use it on our servers and it is very, well,
> *stable*.
> 
> It's easy to install the Stable lilypond debian package on a Testing
> Debian box, fortunately. Debian is my favourite distro: I've tried
> others but always returned. Shame about the scheme thing, but it will
> sort itself out sooner or later (if it hasn't already!). I guess the
> clue's in the distribution name: "Testing" ;)
[...]

I've been able to get Lilypond 2.19 to work in Debian/testing by
compiling from source (lilypond git HEAD) with `./configure
--enable-guile2`.  There are some Scheme-related deprecation warning
messages that show up while lilypond is running, but otherwise it seems
to be working just fine.

Hopefully whoever is maintaining the lilypond package will get things
working again in the official package!


T

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