Re: Pango Update in new binaries

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Federico Bruni" <address@hidden>
To: "Joshua Nichols" <address@hidden>
Cc: "lilypond-devel" <address@hidden>; "Mailinglist lilypond-user" 
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: Pango Update in new binaries


> 2015-04-07 19:47 GMT+02:00 Joshua Nichols <address@hidden>:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I apologize if this question has already been asked.
> >
> > Has the new version of pango been ported to the binaries on
> > mac/windows/linux? I noticed here
> > <https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2656> that there has
> > since been bug issues with a previous version that LilyPond has been 
> > using,
> > and now there's been fixes to those bugs. I noticed its in the latest dev
> > release of LilyPond, but my question is: is it being retroactively
> > implemented in the stable release?
> Hi Josh
>
> Nobody replied to you.
> According to a recent discussion in this list, it seems that the new Pango
> version in GUB makes lilypond compile much faster. This would be another
> good reason to make a 2.18.3 release. Unless 2.20 is close... What
> developers think about it? (I'm cc-ing lilypond-devel).


I don't think an update to 2.18 just to pick up the updated Pango would be a 
good idea.  Updates to stable are there really to correct problems that 
slipped through into the previous version, not to provide upgrades.  If the 
performance improvement is important, I would suggest using 2.19.18.

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Phil Holmes