On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Graham Percival<gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: >>> (It's not that I'm afraid of building Lilypond, it's just that >>> spending three days >>> installing the prerequisites is currently low on my list of >>> priorities.) >> >> I've spent about two days trying, and I'm still running into problems >> which I don't have the time or savvy to decode right now... =\ >> I'd love to give Joe's spacing algos a whirl immediately, but if I have >> to wait for the next release so be it. > > Given that we know it's an improvement, and it's being done by a > very reliable developer, I'm perfectly happy having this merged in > now. Including it in GUB 2.13 binaries is the only way to reach > widespread testing, after all.
For future reference: the way we usually did this was having new code added in parallel to the old code for a few versions, without flipping the default, so people could test the new features at their leisure. Not sure if that would work for this change though. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel