Am Mi., 29. Jan. 2020 um 13:21 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > > Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > iirc in Salzburg there was the plan to do a 2.19.84-release, soon > > followed by stable 2.20 > > May I ask how's the state of 2.19.84? > > I just got news from Phil (who had been offline for a while) and he > plans to set to it this weekend, time allowing. > > > I ask because, in the german forum Arnold found a method to cure some > > windows-only bugs., about mis-predicted force and probably several > > assertion-failures: > > https://lilypondforum.de/index.php/topic,609.msg3463.html#msg3463 > > > > Though, this would first need to be reviewed and put in the source > > and then been tested by users. > > For the latter, I made a windows-installer containing this patch and > > could post about it on -user for testing. > > > > Alternatively, we could postpone it, implementing it in 2.21 > > > > Thoughts? > > After 2.19.84, we stipulated a two-week window until 2.20. I'd propose > that you try getting the respective patch into review right now if it is > ok for you, and we aim for its appearance in 2.19.84 (by being as rushed > about including it and cherry-picking into the stable branch as > appropriate, and, if push comes to shove, giving a slight delay to > 2.19.84). This is kind of an important thing to have fixed in the > stable release if we see a chance of doing so, and having that two-week > window would be a good thing.
Patch is up, https://codereview.appspot.com/577450043 added to https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4943/ > I haven't yet looked at the patch/discussion yet: this is just my first > reaction rather than an LGTM. Understood Thanks, Harm
