Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

[Jacques Menu]

Hello developers,

Thanks a lot for those excellent news!. I’ve switched to 2.23.6/guile 2.2 on 
MacOS and will report about my experience.

JM

> On 8 Feb 2022, at 14:07, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion 
> <lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.6. 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
> 2.22.1 version.
> 
> This release also marks a transition towards Guile 2.2: The binaries
> available from http://lilypond.org/development are built using GUB with
> Guile 1.8, while the packages available from
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/release%252F2.23.6-1
> were created with the new infrastructure developed over the past
> months, making use of Guile 2.2. We encourage testing with your scores
> to make sure that future releases of LilyPond will continue to work for
> you. If there are problems with the version using Guile 2.2 that cannot
> be reproduced with the binaries using Guile 1.8, we would love to hear
> about them as early as possible.
> 
> The binaries with Guile 2.2 are different in a number of ways, the two
> major changes being:
> 1. All binaries are 64-bit only and available for Linux, Windows (via
> mingw), and macOS. In particular, this finally means official binaries
> that work on macOS >= 10.15, which cannot run 32-bit programs anymore.
> 2. There is no installation, simply extract the downloaded tar or zip
> (for Windows) archive and run it. The binaries don't include a GUI
> anymore, we recommend using third-party editors such as Frescobaldi.