Re: Status of Lilypond for MacOS X

[David Kastrup]

Hans Aikema <address@hidden> writes:

> On 9-3-2012 18:39, Graham Percival wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:00:33PM +0000, Colin Hall wrote:
>>> There is a known critical issue with Lilypond for MacOS X version
>>> 2.14.2.
>> I'd use different terminology.  The lilypond osx download page
>> clearly says "MacOS X 10.7 Lion is not yet supported.".  As such,
>> any failure to run on 10.7 is not a bug.
>
> I tend to agree, but cannot resist to mention that your claim is
> incorrect. It's not clearly noted on all download-page (some don't
> even mention 10.4 as the lowest supported version). The remark is
> missing afaics on the pages in Czech (cs), Hungarian (hu), Japanese
> (ja), Dutch (nl) and Chinese (zh) download pages. Not all musicians
> speak English/French/German/Spanish/Italian. (Landing on the Dutch
> page by default made me crawl the other languages).

It depends on the work of the translators how complete and current the
respective translations are.  It is a nice thought that in a stable
release, all translations would be guaranteed to be up to date.  But not
all that realistic.

-- 
David Kastrup