Re: How stable is 2.21? If this is the only thing you want to have fixed, you could try 2.18, which does not have the problem.
-- Phil Holmes ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Toye To: Urs Liska ; Andrew Bernard ; Lukas-Fabian Moser Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 3:55 PM Subject: Re: How stable is 2.21? Thanks all for the comments. As I'm running Windows it looks like I'm stuffed until 2.21 is released. Any ideas when this might happen? Best regards, Peter mailto:[email protected] www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Sunday, November 10, 2019, 1:19:38 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 10. November 2019 13:40:11 MEZ schrieb Peter > Toye <[email protected]>: >>Andrew, >>Thanks. I'll give it a whirl. But where do I download it from? The LP >>web site doesn't offer anything more advances than 2.19.83. > That seems to be a misunderstanding. 2.21 has > not been released yet and can only be compiled from source. > Ur >>Best regards, >>Peter >>mailto:[email protected] >>www.ptoye.com >>------------------------- >>Sunday, November 10, 2019, 12:18:16 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: >>Hi Peter, >>It's pretty good. Lilypond suffers from the overly false modesty that >>all open source projects have, which is to declare development versions >>'unstable'. Technically this may be accurate to say, but in practice I >>have found the development versions over many years to always be >>outstandingly good, a real tribute to the excellence of our developers. >>It's the same with version numbering in open source: modesty demands >>that some programs sit at version 0.9 or so for up to even decades >>until proved utterly error free beyond all earthly standards. >>Where's the harm in it? You can always install multiple versions side >>by side. >>Andrew >>On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 23:04, Peter Toye <[email protected]> wrote: >>I'm asking because I need to assemble a score with different staff >>sizes (page-turning issues in piano music) and the bug I asked about >>yesterday is reportedly corrected. But I hate working with unstable >>software - I wrote enough of that in my programming days :) And even >>more debugging someone else's software (reason - ditto).
