Re: Bug on LP web page

[Peter Toye]

Andrew,

Thanks for these comments. I take your point about the stable releases, but I've had my fingers badly burned in the past (not by Lilypond) from using development-stage software. It's taken a lot of correspondence with the vendor and wasted a lot of time. Sometimes, it's even a full release - thank you, Microsoft :-)>

Anyway, Kaspersky have promised to remove the false positive (see digest 169 issue 87), after which I'll download it for the 4th time.

Best regards,

Peter
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Saturday, December 17, 2016, 10:42:01 AM, you wrote:

Hello Peter, Although 2.18 is the nominal stable release, I have found from experience that the development releases are remarkably clean and stable. I engrave massively complex modernist scores with a large amount of Scheme customization and only once in several years have I encountered a bug that affected my work, and that was fixed rapidly by the team (a small matter really relating to tuplet stencils.] If anybody's scores are going to throw up bugs it is going to be mine! And they don't. I get completely clean compiles on hundreds of pages of scores. I would assert that it is worth using the latest development versions, if for no other reason than the large number of enhancements and fixes available. Also, a lot of the people on the list who are willing to help out do not necessarily keep 2.18 around just to answer questions. As to Kaspersky, I may well be wrong, but it has the sound of a false positive to me. In such cases the usual advice is to simply turn of the virus program during the install, and then re-enable it. Would that not work? Kaspersky has a well known reputation for throwing false positives - perhaps it makes customers feel good to know that the program is actually doing something, as otherwise it sits in the background apparently doing nothing. I think this is a design decision from Kasperksy. I can assure you that my virus checkers on Windows 10 do not regard that release of lilypond as malware, and it has caused no harm. Your mail implies you think you are going to be debugging lilypond. I have not had to do that, except once. Not too bad! Andrew On 17 December 2016 at 21:09, Peter Toye <address@hidden> wrote: Federico, Thank you very much. At the moment I'm still on 2.18 so I'm using those manual pages. I can't download 2.19 until Kaspersky have fixed their false positive bug. Also, it's not a stable release, and I'm fed up with debugging other people's software - I spent far too much of my professional life debugging my own :-)>