Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.19.0

[Johan Vromans]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:54:05 +0200
Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

> If you install LilyPond through your (Linux) OS's package manager this
> will detect any updates to the OS's packages (of course) and will
> therefore update automatically whenever you run your package manager's
> update procedure (e.g. apt-get update && upat-get upgrade).
> If you have downloaded LilyPond as a binary release this will of course
> *not* detect the availability of any newer releases.

Much simpler: Frescobaldi seems to use the timestamp of the binary to detect
updates.

My lilypond binary is ~/bin/lilypond, which basically
execs /usr/bin/lilypond with some additional --include paths.

When /usr/bin/lilypond is updated to a newer version, this is not detected 
since the timestamp of ~/bin/lilypond doesn't change.

As remarked by Villum: detecting newer versions is efectively
"circumvented somehow in the setup". 

> So *now* Frescobaldi does detect updates on the
> LilyPond side, that is, when you have updated LilyPond outside of
> Frescobaldi.

*now* being > 2.19.0 ?

-- Johan