On 5/29/11 3:48 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:09:53PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> In trying to nail down the notorious #1562, I started a ghostscript-9.0 >> branch in GUB, which uses ghostscript 9.02, freetype-2.4.4 and includes >> a small ghostscript installer fixlet. >> >> It would be nice if you could find a time to include these into >> the release branch or master. > > Sorry, but I don't think that would be a good idea. We've just > reached 0 Critical bugs again, so I'll be making a new Release > Candidate (Carl: I can handle the backporting, probably, enjoy > your vacation). This is not the right time to switch a bunch of > build requirements. Remember that 2.14.0 is drastically late and > the delay has caused huge problems. > > I think the best thing is to get 2.14.0 out now, include a warning > that it doesn't work on windows 7 SP1 but that we're testing a fix > and hope to have a new version out soon. Then we switch to > ghostscript-9.0 in 2.15.0 and start testing. Actually, the last patch than Jan posted should make LilyPond work on windows 7 sp1, IIUC. So as long as we backport that patch, we're good with windows. Thanks, Carl P.S. I'm glad this whole gs9 thing came up. I was having weird bugs doing make doc on my (OSX) system, and chord names had the wrong font. As a result of all the discussion about gs9, I reset my gs to 8.73, and everything went away. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel