Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> If we refuse thinking about stable releases by taking GUB as an >>> excuse, the grand next stable release that will benefit users of >>> many operating systems is likely to fall in the class "too little, >>> too late". >> >> I second David. Given that we develop within a GNU environment, bugs >> specific to Windows and Mac shouldn't prevent stable releases. I can >> even imagine that well announced release candidates for a new stable >> version attracts developers to help fix issues with problematic >> platforms. > > From a support perspective, not releasing the windows and mac versions > at the same time is problematic. Many questions and bugreports that > could be answered with "upgrade to the latest version" all of a sudden > start depending on the platform that the user is using. Also, it makes > it more difficult to get users to pay for work, since users won't pay > if you don't release the work to their platform
Which is exactly the situation that we find ourselves in already. > I fully sympathize with the desire to junk Mac and Windows for being a > pains in the asses to develop for, but they are the platforms where > the majority of the users are. We (Jan and I) made a conscious > decision that having more users is better for lilypond than saving > some developer resources over not distributing windows/mac binaries. Sure, but we are not talking about junking Mac and Windows, but about junking using them as a cheap excuse for losing sight of stable release criteria altogether. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel