Re: [Denemo-devel] No "Whole measure rest"

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 12:09 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> On 2019-06-19 at 15:24, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 14:52 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > 
> > > I have got a strange error with my Denemo behaviour, which I
> > > cannot
> > > explain. I am using Denemo version 1.1.8
> > 
> > There have been 13 releases since then!
> 
> Yes, I know, but my point was to stay with the stable version of
> Debian, 
> if possible.
> > 
> > > under Debian which I have done
> > > for quite a time without any problems. But now, after upgrading
> > > Debian
> > > to version 9.9 (Stretch)
> > 
> > Debian Stretch only has Denemo in the backports section (this is
> > because they don't have guile-1.8 in the standard distribution, and
> > although Denemo can be built with guile-2.0 LilyPond can't ...)
> 
> Yes, so I have included stretch-backports as well as jessie-updates
> and 
> stretch-proposed-updates in my /etc/apt/sources.list, as I saw when
> I 
> searched for Denemo on debian.org, that there is where the program
> resides.
> > So, what version of Denemo have you got running (see Help->About)?
> 
> As I said: version 1.1.8, no note about some special version.

I don't understand, Debian is always well behind but not *that* much
behind. I searched for denemo on the Debian website and it said this:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/denemo

Package: denemo (2.2.0-1~bpo9+1)

that's version 2.2 not 1.1.8


> Thank you Richard. Question is still there why Denemo has worked
> fine 
> with the used version, now suddenly does not, just because a change
> in 
> the Debian version. I do not remember if I told you that Denemo in
> one 
> of these quite annoying info boxes tells that I have pressed the
> space 
> bar, and that it will produce a Whole Measure Rest, but this promise
> is 
> never fulfilled.

it will be because it is not executing the Scheme correctly - if you
run the program in the terminal I expect there will be lots of
complaints from guile about stuff not found. Denemo is poor at telling
the user when something catastrophic like that is going on.

Richard