Re: Updating GNU Guix's package definition for LilyPond

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Hi Jahrme,
>
> Le 17/01/2023 à 12:14, Jahrme Risner a écrit :
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I recently moved my primary system onto GNU Guix and have been
>> getting it set up according. While doing that I noticed that the
>> Guix package for LilyPond is still on 2.20.0, seemingly having
>> missed the entire 2.22.0 release cycle,
>
>
>
> Given that one of LilyPond's creators now works on Guix, I actually find
> this a bit surprising...

Jan?  Well, he'd not likely be in a rush to update, given that LilyPond
worked fine for him for decades.

Anekdote: two(?) years ago I was in a LilyPond-centric conference in
Salzburg and put something like

    \override Staff.KeySignature.color = #red

on a slide.  Han-Wen discretely took me aside and told me that I had
misspelt what should be

    \override Staff.KeySignature color = #red

That seriously threw me for a loop since that syntax change had been
done (backward-compatibly) in 2012 or so, and my whole manner of
thinking about that line did not match Han-Wen's.  Of course I literally
knew where he was coming from, and it was a place he was comfortable
with.

It felt sort of seeing someone enter a house through a tunnel trapdoor
that had not been used as such for a decade because there was a much
more convenient entrance by now.

-- 
David Kastrup