Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

[Freeman Gilmore]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:04 AM Tim's Bitstream <timmcn@bitstream.net>
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> On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:32 PM, Freeman Gilmore <freeman.gilmore@gmail.com>
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> Freeman Gilmore <freeman.gilmore@gmail.com> writes:
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>> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> >> 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.
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>> >> In this release, dropping Guile 1.8 support has finally become possible
>> >> also for our sources. We'd like to dedicate this release to Ian Hulin
>> >> who was one of the first systematically working on our numerous
>> >> roadblocks for Guile 2 migration after tackling a few other high-level
>> >> problems. In the time spans where his health permitted it, he was able
>> >> to significantly reduce the amount of remaining problems for the Guile
>> 2
>> >> migration after having started working on them in 2010, making the goal
>> >> that we finally reached now more tangible for others to work on after
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>> >> left us in 2015.
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>> >> --
>> >> David Kastrup
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>> > Is there going to be a non binary version for windows coming soon?
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>> The source code is the same independent of operating system, so you
>> apparently don't mean "source code" when you say "non binary".  What
>> would your expectations of a "non binary version for windows" be?
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>> David Kastrup
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> Ok i see it now, but this was my problem.   I know that the source code  
> (binary)
> is usually the same for all but I have never worked with source code  for
> LilyPond so when I read this, "Documentation writers and testers will
> generally want to download the latest binary:" with 5 binaries listed
> below,   *Note, the colon should be a period;* and make it look like it
> is not the header for a listing.   I may not b the only dummy out there!.
> Thank you, ƒg
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> This sounds like a conversation at cross purposes.
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> If you want to compile your own binary from source code, download the
> source code and follow the instructions that you will find in the directory
> (folder in Mac terms, don't know which language Windows uses).
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> If you just want to install a working application, then download and
> install the appropriate one of the precompiled ones from that list.  This
> is what I do because it is just a lot simpler.    I haven't compiled from
> source in years since somebody else volunteers to do that for use with my
> system.
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> Linguistically the colon looks fine to me, since it indicates "use one of
> the following:"
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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 what I am looking for now that I am clear that Lilyond one binaries for
all.   Like you, i am not interested i  the binaries.

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> Hope this helps!
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