Re: Lilypond is now on Homebrew for macOS Mojave or higher (Intel or M1)

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Am 05.10.21 um 11:48 schrieb Jefferson Felix:
> I asked lilypond-devel before merging lilypond into homebrew, and they 
> didn't notice known bugs with guile 2 - they already fixed all known 
> issues.
> The strict homebrew core rules don't agree on using guile 1.8, unless 
> severe bugs exist and make it impossible to use (they don't have this 
> version, unlike the Mac ports).
> I know Mac ports use guile 1.8, and other Linux distributions also do, 
> but these arguments were insufficient for the homebrew core team to 
> agree with this version.

Sorry, I think I didn't make myself completely clear. What I wanted to 
say was:

- I very much applaud your project, which I think helps the (mac) 
LilyPond community a great deal.
- Even though your LilyPond releases differ substantially from the 
official releases, I would expect them to work quite well for most use 
cases.
- That your release may not be "officially supported" does not mean that 
the LilyPond developer team won't interested in hearing bug reports, as 
stable Guile 2 compatibility is an actual development goal.

To follow up on Jeans remarks: Maybe (if it's not already the case) it 
would be a good idea if your LilyPond version would show a message 
regarding Guile 2 on startup. Maybe something like:

GNU LilyPond 2.22.0 (Guile 2 build)

or whatever; perhaps this would make it more probable that people 
reporting bugs give the crucial information that they're on Guile 2.

Lukas