Fwd: Bug squad needs help to verify a critical bug on Mac OS X 10.4

[Colin Hall]

Phil,

I wonder if you could help with this.

I've tried several times today to post this message to the lilypond-user 
mailing list, and I also submitted it via the gmane interface. During office 
hours there was no sign of it coming through.

I wondered if it was closed down pending resolution of the spam problem?

I just got home and found a bunch of reject messages from the list server 
claiming I am not subscribed. But I am

Could you post this on my behalf, please? Thanks. I'd like to get some action 
on this bug.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:33:30 +0000
From: Colin Hall <address@hidden>
To: Lilypond User <address@hidden>
Subject: Bug squad needs help to verify a critical bug on Mac OS X 10.4


Hi,

I'd like to ask for some help from the Mac users out there, specifically those 
running version 10.4 of Mac OS X. You might have seen David Kastrup's post 
earlier this month about a bug in Lilypond that is a roadblock for the next 
major release of Lilypond which will be version 2.16.0.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00107.html

Since then a candidate fix has been developed and it is included in the latest 
development release of Lilypond, version 2.15.30. The bug squad would urgently 
like to verify that the issue is fixed but we don't have access to a Mac 
running Mac OS X 10.4.

If you have a suitable machine you can help by downloading Lilypond 2.15.30 and 
running it on your Mac, as follows:

a) Download Lilypond 2.15.30. See [2]
b) Double click the app to run it.
c) Confirm that the Lilypond user interface appears as expected
d) Job done! Let us know by replying to this email or posting to the user or 
bugs mailing lists. [3]

If you need further guidance on how to perform any of these steps please reply 
to this email or contact the team via the mailing lists.

Alternatively, if you have a copy of Mac OS X 10.4 that you are no longer using 
would you consider donating it to the Lilypond team? If so, please get in 
touch, as I have suitable hardware on hand.

Cheers,
Colin.


[1] Here are instructions for determining what version of Mac OS X you are 
running:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1633


[2] Download the development release here:
http://www.lilypond.org/development.html
http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/darwin-x86/lilypond-2.15.30-1.darwin-x86.tar.bz2
http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/darwin-ppc/lilypond-2.15.30-1.darwin-ppc.tar.bz2


[3] Here is the contact page:
http://www.lilypond.org/contact.html


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Colin Hall

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