Re: LilyPond 2.23.7 released

[Jinsong Zhao]

On 2022/3/27 9:26, Paul Scott wrote:
> If Linux, how did you install it?  I haven’t seen instructions for the .tar.gz 
> files yet.
> I have extracted the files.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Paul

I am on Windows. The problems that I encountered is to use special
characters in file and font names. I don't have experience on how to run 
it on Linux.

Best,
Jinsong

> > On Mar 26, 2022, at 5:36 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jinsong.zhao@foxmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2022/3/27 5:36, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote:
> > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.7. This is termed
> > > a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to
> > > use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the
> > > 2.22.2 version.
> > > Starting with this release, LilyPond requires Guile 2.2 and the
> > > official binaries were created with the new infrastructure developed
> > > over the past months. Issues reported for the previous release have
> > > been addressed, in particular regarding performance (by integrating
> > > compiled bytecode) and on Windows, where it is now possible to extract
> > > the provided zip archive with the Windows Explorer and use special
> > > characters in filenames. Please test this release and let us know about
> > > problems that you encounter.
> >
> > I have run it with the input files that had problems with the 2.23.6. Now all 
> > work well.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jinsong