Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Freeman Gilmore
What I saw was confusing to me and should have been clear to me from my background. That is my fault. I was thinking "binaries'', now i have to compile, I do not want to do that; It is worded correctly.True it would be better to make it simpler to understand for someone that has on

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Freeman Gilmore writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:03 AM Carl Sorensen > wrote: >> >> LilyPond does *not* have one binary for all. It has one source code for >> all. >> > That helps > >> >> I think that there can be a bit of confusion here due to the fact that two >> elements in the list

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Freeman Gilmore
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:03 AM Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:31 AM Freeman Gilmore > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:04 AM Tim's Bitstream >> wrote: >> >>>  >>> >>> On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:32 PM, Freeman Gilmore >>> wrote: >>> >>>  >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Freeman Gilmore
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:40 AM Michael Gerdau wrote: > >> One of the following binaries. Sorry, that is the way I read it. > > I understand what is meant now. But if you do not have a clue what a > > binary is then My understanding of english is the header indicates that > > there are 5

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:31 AM Freeman Gilmore wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:04 AM Tim's Bitstream > wrote: > >>  >> >> On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:32 PM, Freeman Gilmore >> wrote: >> >>  >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> Freeman Gilmore writes: >>>

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Freeman Gilmore
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 6:55 AM David Kastrup wrote: > Freeman Gilmore writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > > >> Freeman Gilmore writes: > >> > >> > Is there going to be a non binary version for windows coming soon? > >> > >> The source code is the same

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Michael Gerdau
One of the following  binaries.   Sorry, that is the way I read it.  I understand what is meant now.   But if you do not have a clue what a binary is then My understanding of english is the header indicates that there are 5 binaries.    It is not my website so leave it as it is. It has

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Freeman Gilmore
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:04 AM Tim's Bitstream wrote: >  > > On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:32 PM, Freeman Gilmore > wrote: > >  > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup wrote: > >> Freeman Gilmore writes: >> >> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> We

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Tim's Bitstream
 > On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:32 PM, Freeman Gilmore > wrote: >  > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup wrote: >> Freeman Gilmore writes: >> >> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread David Kastrup
Freeman Gilmore writes: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup wrote: > >> Freeman Gilmore writes: >> >> > Is there going to be a non binary version for windows coming soon? >> >> The source code is the same independent of operating system, so you >> apparently don't mean "source

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 27/04/2022 à 07:57, Freeman Gilmore a écrit : What reference manual should I use to write guile 2 for LilyPond? Thank you, ƒg All Guile manuals are here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/learn/ The one for Guile 2 is listed as "Guile 2.2 (the old stable release series)". Best,

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread Freeman Gilmore
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed > a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to > use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the > 2.22.2 version. > > In

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread Freeman Gilmore
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup wrote: > Freeman Gilmore writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > > >> > >> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed > >> a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread Freeman Gilmore
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed > a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to > use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the > 2.22.2 version. > > In

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread David Kastrup
Freeman Gilmore writes: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup wrote: > >> >> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed >> a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to >> use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread Federico Bruni
On Tue, Apr 26 2022 at 08:04:40 +0100, J Martin Rushton wrote: On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 00:03 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: I seem to recall that the Frescobaldi Flatpak package actually bundles LilyPond. Maybe Federico can tell more? Frescobaldi hasn't run on some flavours of Linux

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread J Martin Rushton
On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 00:03 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > I seem to recall that the Frescobaldi Flatpak package actually > bundles LilyPond. Maybe Federico can tell more? > Frescobaldi hasn't run on some flavours of Linux properly for two or three years. I think it stopped working around

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-26 Thread Federico Bruni
On Tue, Apr 26 2022 at 00:03:17 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: (Apparently no PPA or Flatpak version.) https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi I seem to recall that the Frescobaldi Flatpak package actually bundles LilyPond. Maybe Federico can tell more? Yes, it

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, The problem is that I am using the version of Lilypond supported by the OS package manager. I'm running Pop! OS which is basically an Ubuntu derivative. They JUST today announced their next LTS release (22.04) is ready. So, the OS maintained version is currently at 2.20 (to be precise,

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Kevin Cole
> > > There have been problems with the version in the search box > going out of sync with the current LilyPond version, but I > think these days we are careful to update it timely. It won't > help with older versions though. > > Jean > Alas, more's the pity. Well, now that 22.04 LTS is out, I'll

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 25/04/2022 à 23:56, Kevin Cole a écrit : Alas, more's the pity. Well, now that 22.04 LTS is out, I'll be upgrading soon, which looks like it will get me 2.22 of Lilypond. Any reason not to use the latest version from the website? lilypond.org/unix.html gives you a shell script

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 25/04/2022 à 23:37, Kevin Cole a écrit : Hi, The problem is that I am using the version of Lilypond supported by the OS package manager. I'm running Pop! OS which is basically an Ubuntu derivative. They JUST today announced their next LTS release (22.04) is ready. So, the OS maintained

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread Kevin Cole
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:49 PM David Kastrup wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed > a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to > use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the > 2.22.2 version. > > In

Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

2022-04-25 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Cole writes: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:49 PM David Kastrup wrote: > >> >> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is termed >> a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to >> use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using