Re: LilyPond 2.23.14

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 04:29 -0500, Karlin High wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 3:57 PM Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on
> LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
> > please test with your use cases and notify us of any problems.
> 
> I spent a few hours yesterday with LilyPond 2.23.14 and Frescobaldi
> 3.2, on Windows 10 21H1.
> 
> While I am not the most demanding user -- mostly doing SATB/TTBB
> shape-note hymns and light choral works -- all seems well for me with
> this release. In spite of the major foundational upgrades completed
> and underway such as Guile 2+ and Cairo, the software is still
> LilyPond-as-expected and I would not be aware of the changes if I was
> not following the mailing lists.
> 
> Kudos to all involved, especially Jonas Hahnfeld for managing the releases.


On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 09:09 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 3:57 PM Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on
> > LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > please test with your use cases and notify us of any problems.
> 
> I have been using 2.23.14 very heavily, on a large set of relatively
> complicated and inter-connected files, in a mission-critical environment
> (getting the scores done for the public workshop/reading of “The Quest”
> that happened on Saturday night), and encountered no problems — quite the
> opposite: many things that I had to work around before (especially around
> spacing, collisions, etc.) seem to have been improved since my last major
> upgrade.
> 
> Whether or not it was a wise decision to upgrade to 2.23.14 right in the
> middle of an unbelievably high-pressure, time-sensitive musical theatre
> workshopping process is another matter… ;)  But it's no doubt gratifying
> to hear that Lilypond handled the strain.

Thanks Karlin and Kieren for testing and the encouraging words! I think
this means we are on track for the first release candidate 2.23.80 next
weekend.

Jonas

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