Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12

[Trevor Daniels]

John Mandereau

> On 2008/09/22, Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> > From: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
> > > Do we -really- want to issue a new stable release
> > > containing masses of syntax changes with a broken
> > > convert-ly for many Mac users?
> >
> > The MacOS Python pages <http://www.python.org/download/mac/> actually
> > have fairly detailed download instructions and binary installers, so
> > as long as the link is included in the documentation, it doesn't seem
> > unreasonable to expect users to install this manually.
>
> This is a tempting solution, as making convert-ly work with Python 2.3
> again will take 1 hour of precious time and we won't do this for
> lilypond-book anyway.

I looked at these pages and if I were faced with
downloading python I wouldn't know where to start.
Maybe that's because I'm totally unfamiliar with
Macs, though.

> Shall I go ahead with this (in lilypond-book and convert-ly)?  We
> provide Python with all other binaries, so I think this error message is
> enough.

Maybe the view of Mac users should prevail.  As
I'm not one, I'll withdraw.

> Cheers,
> John

Trevor