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From: | Mats Bengtsson |
Subject: | Re: problems with lilypond 2.5.31 under WinME |
Date: | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:42:16 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > ...
It seems that we encounter *a lot* of bugs/incompatibilities in the DOS-based Windows versions. It starts to be a major time sink, and I'm beginning to wonder if we should support them at all. The most problematic thing is the lack of unicode support, it is really embarassing that we can only support ascii (the English language). What would people say if we suggested LilyPond users to upgrade from DOS based Windows systems to something more modern, like Windows XP or Ubuntu linux, or send tested patches to CVS?
As far as I have understood, the plan is to keep the Cygwin version of LilyPond in addition to the new installer. I have got the impression that the Cygwin version works (although you get some warning popups) for Win 98 and Win ME, so then we can always refer to Cygwin for those users. If the Cygwin version will disappear, I still think it makes sense to maintain LilyPond only for modern versions of Windows. That's what happens for many other programs anyway. /Mats
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