On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 15:14 +0000, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 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.
There are a fair few changes to existing code in the patch, so it would take some effort to get this working. If I can't solve my backlog of know issues soon, I'll look into doing it this way. Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
