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Re: How stable is 2.21?


From: Peter Toye
Subject: Re: How stable is 2.21?
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 15:55:45 +0000

Thanks all for the comments.

As I'm running Windows it looks like I'm stuffed until 2.21 is released. Any ideas when this might happen?

Best regards,

Peter
mailto:address@hidden
www.ptoye.com

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Sunday, November 10, 2019, 1:19:38 PM, Urs Liska wrote:



> Am 10. November 2019 13:40:11 MEZ schrieb Peter
> Toye <
address@hidden>:
>>Andrew,

>>Thanks. I'll give it a whirl. But where do I download it from? The LP
>>web site doesn't offer anything more advances than 2.19.83.

> That seems to be a misunderstanding. 2.21 has
> not been released yet and can only be compiled from source.

> Ur

>>Best regards,

>>Peter
>>mailto:address@hidden
>>www.ptoye.com

>>-------------------------
>>Sunday, November 10, 2019, 12:18:16 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote:


>>Hi Peter,

>>It's pretty good. Lilypond suffers from the overly false modesty that
>>all open source projects have, which is to declare development versions
>>'unstable'. Technically this may be accurate to say, but in practice I
>>have found the development versions over many years to always be
>>outstandingly good, a real tribute to the excellence of our developers.
>>It's the same with version numbering in open source: modesty demands
>>that some programs sit at version 0.9 or so for up to even decades
>>until proved utterly error free beyond all earthly standards.

>>Where's the harm in it? You can always install multiple versions side
>>by side.

>>Andrew



>>On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 23:04, Peter Toye <
address@hidden> wrote:

>>I'm asking because I need to assemble a score with different staff
>>sizes (page-turning issues in piano music) and the bug I asked about
>>yesterday is reportedly corrected. But I hate working with unstable
>>software - I wrote enough of that in my programming days :)  And even
>>more debugging someone else's software (reason - ditto).        

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