Re: Lilypond and Windows XP 32 bits

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> I'm sorry to say this, but nobody will be able to help you.
> Compiling and packaging LilyPond is an extremely involved process,
> builds take hours with the current infrastructure, and the
> new infrastructure we are currently replacing it with creates
> 64-bit binaries, so they won't run on XP. Please understand that
> LilyPond is developed and maintained by a small group of volunteers
> who do this in their free time. Testing OSes and fixing OS-specific
> problems takes a lot of time, especially with Windows, and XP has
> been unsupported since 2014, meaning that there will most likely
> be numerous obstacles on the way to getting it to work, related
> to other software that has also long dropped XP support. I
> doubt anyone will make this their priority. By all means prefer
> upgrading your OS if you can, as it is also very insecure
> by now. If you cannot, the only solution I can imagine
> will be to run an outdated version of LilyPond like 2.18.

Well, wouldn't it be reasonable then if our download page ceased
declaring Windows 2000 and Windows XP as supported by our installers?

-- 
David Kastrup