No point in telling anyone really, since it
won't be fixed in 2.18.
I run Windows and have over 50 versions
installed. I wrote a little application to select which one is run, but
you should be able to do the same with a full directory specification for which
version you want to run. Just install them in slightly different
locations.
-- Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: How stable is 2.21?
Phil,
There's a slight problem here - LP doesn't seem to allow me to have two
versions installed on the machine at the same time. I found this when I was
pointed towards the unofficial release of 2.21 on gnu.org.
And another
point - when I installed this I found that the layout-set-staff-size function is giving wrong results - staff
size 15 is larger than 16! So there seems to be a different bug in that
version. I'd like to provide an MWE but the bug doesn't show up, and the score
that I've got is far too long to post here. Whom should I tell about this (if
they don't already know)?
Best regards,
Peter
mailto:address@hidden
www.ptoye.com
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Sunday, November 10, 2019, 4:42:56 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
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If this is the
only thing you want to have fixed, you could try 2.18, which does not
have the problem.
-- Phil Holmes
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Original Message ----- From: Peter Toye To: Urs
Liska;
Andrew
Bernard;
Lukas-Fabian
Moser Cc: lilypond-user
Mailinglist Sent: Sunday,
November 10, 2019 3:55 PM Subject: Re: How stable
is 2.21?
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:
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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
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>> 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
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