2008/11/16 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> There is a point in the development course from stable to next stable, >> where people should move to the current development release and forget >> the old one. These days too many people uses 2.10 and its old >> documentation. If a new user wants to start using LilyPond, I >> undoubtedly send him to current 2.11 which is almost 2.12, because not >> doing so involves >> >> - all you learn about 2.10 will become obsolete shortly.
I meant: all that is specific to 2.10 only. > I imagine that the reason many people still start out with 2.10.33 (on Linux > at least) is because 2.10.33 is the version in the repositories or is even > pre-installed in the distro (e.g. Ubuntu Studio). packagers seem to be very quickie people when we talk about Firefox and others, but very slow with regards to LP. Many apps I have in Ubuntu as standard are pre-1.0 versions and they update frequently. > For these cases there > should perhaps be a warning about correct un-installation of the old version > through the distro's package manager before trying to install the new > version. I recall once having troubles when I didn't uninstall the old > version properly. I could report about a case that required remove, purge _and_ manually delete several directories before 2.11 accepts to install without any complaints. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) http://www.paconet.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
