Re: Naming lines of music

[Giles Boardman]

Hello Xavier,

I haven't tested either of these versions - I read something that I interpreted to mean that something that LilyPond depends on had been upgraded and no longer runs on Windows 7 or 8.1 with the effect that later versions of Lilypond won't. This is beyond my technical understanding of the composition of the environment and I don't recall what the something was (though I think it begins with "g") so I took it at face value.

Best

Giles

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From: Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>
Sent: 14 May 2024 15:15
To: Giles Boardman <giles.boardman@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Naming lines of music

 

On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 15:43, Giles Boardman <giles.boardman@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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> Thanks again Xavier. You are very patient - I have just sat down at my up-to-date computer and the difference between the versions' functionality is enormous. If I'd realised, I would have bitten the bullet and had fewer questions and taken up less of everyone's time. My apologies. Out of interest, is there somewhere that tells me the last version of Lilypond that would run on Windows 8.1. Perhaps there is a sweet spot for me - my layout requirements are largely satisfied by these very simple layouts.

Hello,

Well apparently Jean added the sentence "(Windows 7 and Windows 8 are not supported)" for 2.24.0.

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/commit/c9fa78c28d26661f1176bd8e1b13c574e71e9664

That being said, LilyPond >2.24 does not support Windows <8.1 mainly because Microsoft itself has ended support for Windows 8.1.

Maybe LilyPond 2.24 or 2.25 still do run on Wondows 8.1. Have you tested?

Kind regards,

Xavier