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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
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Subject: Re: gEDA and it's future with Scheme & Guile was Re: [geda-user] Project leadership
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Lev:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:14:37 +0100 (CET)
> karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
...
> > Look at a in some ways similar project: http://www.lilypond.org/
> > They use c/c++/python/scheme with scripting in scheme only, and they
> > are successful at it.
> 
> I doubt that. I was having real hard time compiling lilypond on FreeBSD,
> because they stick to older version of Guile. I was talking with the their
> project leader, and he said they still struggling to upgrade to Guile 2.0,
> but Guile developers are unfriendly. They are also having hard time because of
> Guile.

That is wery true and I have the same problem here, how do I make 1.8 
and 2.0 exist side by side, which should be a solved problem.

But that is a problem with guile, not the scheme language.
Lilypond users don't have any problem with the language in their mind,
but yes we have a big problem with the implementation.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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