Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

[David Kastrup]

"H. S. Teoh" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

If you never use a non-ASCII character and are satisfied with the speed
of LilyPond dropping to less than a third and its memory requirements
rising.

This is not a viable option for serious work.

-- 
David Kastrup