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Re: Issue 2338 in lilypond: OS X LilyPad not working


From: lilypond
Subject: Re: Issue 2338 in lilypond: OS X LilyPad not working
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:49:24 +0000


Comment #5 on issue 2338 by address@hidden: OS X LilyPad not working
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2338

I am pointing out that OSX has now been responsible for about a month of stable release delay. The people spending most of the time for fixing the problem have no way of testing it. Any useful feedback even for total blunders takes weeks to arrive, and arrives more by accident rather than release-related coordinated testing, testing that does not require more skills than actually using the respective platform. And that right before a major release.

I think we owe the OSX users the following information in the release announcement for 2.16:

a) since we don't have any actual users of MacOSX available for systematic testing and feedback, support for MacOSX is only provisional. If any component of it works, you are in luck.

b) without anybody willing to engage in regular, timely and systematic testing, we have no option but considering MacOSX an unsupported platform. While we will package MacOSX versions for the near future, there is no way for us to know whether any part of them will actually work, and on what OSX versions. For that reason, it does not make sense to have our release schedule set back in case somebody actually happens to report a problem short before a release. Without anybody willing to do systematic testing and thus provide the most basic criterion for calling a system supported, any problem occuring only in relation with OSX will not be considered release-critical.




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