"Andrew Bernard" <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Phil,
This is what I keep exhorting people to do - use the latest version. This
is probably a Frequently Issued Response :-) on the list by now! I know
2.20 has not come out yet, and when it does 2.18.2 will be obsolete, but
at
the risk of inflaming controversy, isn't about time we started
recommending
people to go to the 2.19 series?
Again, I am sure the unnecessarily self-deprecating open source humility
of
referring to development versions as 'unstable' puts people off
needlessly.
List helpers effectively have to support two streams. I don't have a
2.18.2
installation so I generally ignore questions about that version.
I know this is all problematical, but it would appear that 2.20 is not
coming out in the forseeable future (tell me it will be soon!), so let's
admit that the 2.91.81 and so on are pretty good and very trouble free,
and
let new users know on the website.
Andrew
As you say, LilyPond "unstable" is generally pretty stable. However, we
have had issues with unstable releases that do make them pretty near
unusable, so I generally would not recommend new users to start with an
unstable version. In this case, I recommended 2.19.81 since it is a
pre-release for a new stable release.
--
Phil Holmes
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