Re: New version denemo-2.5~rc1

[Jeremiah Benham]

Richard,
I have created some mingw binaries for testing:
http://denemo.org/~jjbenham/denemo-mingw/denemo-mingw-2.5.0.zip
If all checks out I will upload the tarball and cp this binary over to
the downloads folder.

Jeremiah

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:04 PM Jeremiah Benham
<jeremiahbenham@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Richard,
> I updated the version to 2.5.0 and created a branch off of that. I
> have also created a tarball that will be the official unless some
> showstopper comes up:
> http://denemo.org/~jjbenham/denemo-release/denemo-2.5.0.tar.gz
> I am going to build the mingw now.
>
> Jeremiah
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:57 AM Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 11:36 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > Richard,
> > > Would you like me to create windows binaries for this?
> >
> > I think it best if we can keep to the same release procedures that
> > we've used in the past. I'm a bit hazy about what we have done - I
> > recall that I can't upload to ftp.gnu.org because they have out-of-date
> > credentials for me and I was told that the only way to change them was
> > to send an encrypted email to them which as I've never done such a
> > thing sounded like a pain. I think you have always done the labelling
> > of the release by creating a branch and changing configure.ac to read
> > 2.5.0 and creating a taball and binaries with that version in it.
> > The tarball I've submitted to the translationproject.org is purely for
> > translations - it would report 2.4.5 as its version, but that's ok, as
> > the translationproject people say it doesn't even have to be
> > compilable, just so long as it has the right strings in it.
> >
> > >  I know you are
> > > also building the windows binaries but I read on some thread that you
> > > are using a different version of lilypond than what is in my
> > > overnight
> > > builds.
> >
> > My build of windows binaries is hacked from yours just to allow me to
> > debug windows problems - when I tried this week to build it LilyPond
> > was altogether missing - I don't think I've ever intentionally tried to
> > use a different LilyPond version with it.
> >
> > >  Are the windows binaries that are to be distributed as the
> > > official version now being built from your user?
> > We should use your build as mine is just a hack - I recall having to
> > set up a user called jbenham on my machine and install some files there
> > to get it to work!
> >
> > It is long overdue to get this release out, so I'm glad you have the
> > time to devote to it.
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >