Re: Lilypond (MacOS X) default version number out of date.

[Matthias Neeracher]

On Nov 3, 2006, at 5:20 AM, Edward Treisman wrote:

> Dear Matthias,
>
> I have been trying to download your fabulous program, Lilypond, on  
> my G5 Mac;

It's actually not my program, although I'm proud to have made some  
modest contributions to it.

> I have been unsuccessful.
> I get the following error message:
>
> Processing `/Users/edwardtreisman/Desktop/Untitled.ly'
> Parsing...
> error: Incorrect lilypond version: 2.6.0 (2.7.38, 2.9.27)

That's simple: The \version declaration in the document created at  
startup is not compatible with the version numbers accepted by the  
program. Just change the "2.6.0" to something like "2.8.0". (There is  
also an "Update syntax" command in the "Compile" menu to handle  
complex cases, but in this case, it's not needed.

I'm Cc'ing this to the lilypond development team as a reminder that  
the version number in Welcome-to-LilyPond-MacOS.ly is out of date and  
needs to be updated. Good you caught this, because the next release is  
imminent.

Matthias