Re: Frescobaldi distribution packages
Ubuntu 20.04 will come with LilyPond 2.20. Older releases are usually not updated after the release and will keep 2.18. Ubuntu 2.20 will probably be released tomorrow. https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/lilypond Frescobaldi will be 3.0.0 and not the latest 3.1.2: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/frescobaldi Cheers, Joram
Re: Frescobaldi distribution packages
Hello On 22/04/2020 06:22, Andrew Bernard wrote: Am I right in supposing that 2.20.0 is the now stable version? I notice that, for example, installing Frescobaldi on OpenSuse Leap 15 installs 2.18.2 together with it. Should these system packages now use 2.20.0 instead? That would be a good way to get people off the old versions, for those newly setting up. How does lilypond get into distribution repositories anyway? Is there any thing I can do to help in this regard? It's not a big deal as it is trivial to install 2.20.0 and get Frescobaldi to use that. But it seems to more 2.18.2 is, in a way, deprecated, or at least not one's first choice now. While I cannot speak for Frescobaldi, a general problem of LilyPond has been that the Guile (version 1.8) that was required for 2.18 (and pretty much all of 2.19 if not still 2.20) was finally deprecated such that most distributions had to remove LP because of that - at least that was how I, as a non-developer, understood it. This meant that LP had to be removed or packaged with its own version of Guile which was a problem for maintainers generally. I am not sure what the current state of Guile packaging/support is with LP 2.20 and the various distributions and I am sure that others who know more can chime on or correct me if I was wrong. But I think that was the gist of it right? James
Re: Frescobaldi distribution packages
Il giorno mer 22 apr 2020 alle 15:22, Andrew Bernard ha scritto: How does lilypond get into distribution repositories anyway? Is there any thing I can do to help in this regard? You may ask the distro maintainer to upgrade the package. In Fedora, lilypond 2.20 is currently available in rawhide (33), but I guess it will be available soon in 32 as soon as it passes from beta to stable. Same for Debian, I see 2.20 in testing: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=lilypond
Frescobaldi distribution packages
Am I right in supposing that 2.20.0 is the now stable version? I notice that, for example, installing Frescobaldi on OpenSuse Leap 15 installs 2.18.2 together with it. Should these system packages now use 2.20.0 instead? That would be a good way to get people off the old versions, for those newly setting up. How does lilypond get into distribution repositories anyway? Is there any thing I can do to help in this regard? It's not a big deal as it is trivial to install 2.20.0 and get Frescobaldi to use that. But it seems to more 2.18.2 is, in a way, deprecated, or at least not one's first choice now.
