Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-11 Thread Peter Toye
locations. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Peter Toye To: Phil Holmes Cc: lilypond-user Mailinglist Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 12:48 PM Subject: Re: How stable is 2.21? Phil, There's a slight problem here - LP doesn't seem to allow me to have two versions installed

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-11 Thread Phil Holmes
Re: How stable is 2.21? No point in telling anyone really, since it won't be fixed in 2.18. I run Windows and have over 50 versions installed. I wrote a little application to select which one is run, but you should be able to do the same with a full directory specification for which version

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-11 Thread Peter Toye
- 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

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-11-10 7:55 am, Peter Toye wrote: As I'm running Windows it looks like I'm stuffed until 2.21 is released. Any ideas when this might happen? An option on Windows is to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux. In this way, you can run the Linux version of LilyPond, which would include the

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Peter Toye
:  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

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Phil Holmes
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

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Peter Toye
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:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, November 10, 2019, 1:19:38 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 10.

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Peter, Am 10.11.19 um 13:04 schrieb Peter Toye: How stable is 2.21? 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

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Andrew Bernard
Ah yes - I forgot to mention that. Andrew On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 00:19, Urs Liska wrote: > > > That seems to be a misunderstanding. 2.21 has not been released yet and > can only be compiled from source. > >

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10. November 2019 13:40:11 MEZ schrieb Peter Toye : >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

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Peter Toye
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. Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Sunday, November 10, 2019, 12:18:16 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi

Re: How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Andrew Bernard
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

How stable is 2.21?

2019-11-10 Thread Peter Toye
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