On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:03 AM Carl Sorensen <carl.d.soren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:31 AM Freeman Gilmore <freeman.gilm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:04 AM Tim's Bitstream <tim...@bitstream.net> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:32 PM, Freeman Gilmore <freeman.gilm...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:58 PM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Freeman Gilmore <freeman.gilm...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 3:50 PM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> >>>> >> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.8. This is >>>> termed >>>> >> a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to >>>> >> use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the >>>> >> 2.22.2 version. >>>> >> >>>> >> In this release, dropping Guile 1.8 support has finally become >>>> possible >>>> >> also for our sources. We'd like to dedicate this release to Ian Hulin >>>> >> who was one of the first systematically working on our numerous >>>> >> roadblocks for Guile 2 migration after tackling a few other >>>> high-level >>>> >> problems. In the time spans where his health permitted it, he was >>>> able >>>> >> to significantly reduce the amount of remaining problems for the >>>> Guile 2 >>>> >> migration after having started working on them in 2010, making the >>>> goal >>>> >> that we finally reached now more tangible for others to work on >>>> after he >>>> >> left us in 2015. >>>> >> >>>> >> -- >>>> >> David Kastrup >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > Is there going to be a non binary version for windows coming soon? >>>> >>>> The source code is the same independent of operating system, so you >>>> apparently don't mean "source code" when you say "non binary". What >>>> would your expectations of a "non binary version for windows" be? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David Kastrup >>>> >>> Ok i see it now, but this was my problem. I know that the source code >>> (binary) is usually the same for all but I have never worked with source >>> code for LilyPond so when I read this, "Documentation writers and >>> testers will generally want to download the latest binary:" with 5 >>> binaries listed below, *Note, the colon should be a period;* and make >>> it look like it is not the header for a listing. I may not b the only >>> dummy out there!. >>> Thank you, ƒg >>> >>> >>> This sounds like a conversation at cross purposes. >>> >>> If you want to compile your own binary from source code, download the >>> source code and follow the instructions that you will find in the directory >>> (folder in Mac terms, don't know which language Windows uses). >>> >>> If you just want to install a working application, then download and >>> install the appropriate one of the precompiled ones from that list. This >>> is what I do because it is just a lot simpler. I haven't compiled from >>> source in years since somebody else volunteers to do that for use with my >>> system. >>> >>> Linguistically the colon looks fine to me, since it indicates "use one >>> of the following:" >>> >> One of the following binaries. Sorry, that is the way I read it. >> I understand what is meant now. But if you do not have a clue what a >> binary is then My understanding of english is the header indicates that >> there are 5 binaries. It is not my website so leave it as it is. >> It has what I am looking for now that I am clear that Lilyond one Windows >> x86_64. for all. Like you, i am not interested i the binaries. >> > > LilyPond does *not* have one binary for all. It has one source code for > all. > That helps > > I think that there can be a bit of confusion here due to the fact that two > elements in the list aren't binaries. There are three binaries: GNU/Linux > x86_64, macOS x86_64, and Windows x86_64. Then there are two other > links: Source code and instructions for building with MacPorts. Perhaps we > could separate the binaries from the other links. That's what we do on the > stable download page. > So I was wrong from the start. I was looking for the program for windows, Windows x86_64,. not realising that the program I was looking for was a binary which is compiled from the source code. Sorry this is all stuff from the past at one time i understood, just confused. Thank you all for help with this, i have what i need, ƒg > > > HTH, > > Carl > > > >
