On 3/9/12 12:57 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:51:20PM +0000, Graham Percival wrote: >> If somebody can make 10.4-x86 work, then it would be great to >> officially support it again in the future. However, I think >> that's too far away; delaying 2.16.0 for that doesn't make sense. > >oops, I should delay all emails by 5 minutes or something. > >In case anybody thinks I'm being unfair to osx users: one of the >strongest reasons to move forward with 2.16 right now is so that >we can get a stable lilypond in the hands of 10.7 users. Or, to >put it in my terms, "to make those annoying 'why doesn't lilypond >run on 10.7?' people shut up". > >This decision is a balance between 10.7 users vs. 10.4-x86 users; >the sanity of main developers vs. other stuff, etc. I think that >moving forward with 2.16 is the right thing to do. I totally agree. There is no reason to add a separate download for lilypad on 10.4-x86. Users of 10.4-x86 can upgrade software, or they can use any other text editor to do lilypond work. The only thing not working is the GUI app, which isn't really necessary. I was going to propose this exact solution. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
