Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

[David Wright]

On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 09:48:41 (+0000), Dag Bergman wrote:
> Thanks David for your comments.
> 
> As I said to Werner, I will probably have to do Lilypond work on the Windows 
> 10 machine, albeit inconvenient.

On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 00:16:39 (+0000), Dag Bergman wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I run Windows 10 on a rather powerful Dell-Precision with an i7-7700HQ CPU 
> and 32.0 GB RAM.

You could take the opportunity to install a VM running linux,
and leave the problems of LilyPond on windows/macs behind.
You never know—you might find other XP programs that you can
wean off XP onto open-source software. I'm sure there are
smart people who run linux at Oxford who could help. Many of
the IT people where I used to work were running linux systems
at home or work, and that's 20 years ago.¹

And I would assume that these people's day jobs involves helping
students and staff with their accessibility battles against the
grey on grey themes of so much current software.

¹ Personally, I avoided the university's macs and windows machines,
preferring instead to acquire any number of their 3-yr old cast-off
PCs (from administrators and secretaries) for running linux on my
desk, in the lab, and at home.

Cheers,
David.