Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:02 PM, John Mandereau
<address@hidden> wrote:

>> 10.4 and 10.3: broken lilypond-book and convert-ly.  The broken
>> convert-ly is particularly unfortunate given the syntax changes between
>> 2.10 and 2.12.
>
> These Python scripts require Python 2.4, which is not provided in 10.3
> and 10.4; ideally we should cross-compile Python and ship it in GUB
> binaries, but it could be a nightmare to make it possible (I cannot even
> compile current GUB right now, so I'm far from being able to do this
> within one or 2 weeks).

can someone refresh my mind?  I'm generally against catering for
broken/old  platforms, but maybe we can make an exception for
convert-ly ; what broke for python 2.4 ?


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