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Re: Disagree with recent DOC change
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Disagree with recent DOC change |
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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:02:11 +0100 |
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Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:29:48PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> +Even if you are not familiar with git or are not able to compile
>> +LilyPond you can still help to narrow down the cause of a regression
>> +simply by downloading the binaries of different LilyPond versions
>> +and testing them for the regression.
>>
>> I don't think that this is useful advice since binaries often are
>> incompatible with Scheme/Lilypond trees of other versions, and since
>> many regressions are not introduced in the binaries.
>
> Trevor meant the GUB packages, which install the "actual binary"
> as well as the scheme stuff, fonts, etc.
Then the proper wording is "downloading binary releases" or "binary
packages". But "binaries" means something different.
--
David Kastrup
Re: Disagree with recent DOC change, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2010/02/08