Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12

[Trevor Daniels]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote Monday, September 22, 2008 3:45 PM

> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:02 PM, John Mandereau
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > 10.4 and 10.3: broken lilypond-book and convert-ly.  The broken
> > > convert-ly is particularly unfortunate given the syntax changes between
> > > 2.10 and 2.12.
> >
> > These Python scripts require Python 2.4, which is not provided in 10.3
> > and 10.4; ideally we should cross-compile Python and ship it in GUB
> > binaries, but it could be a nightmare to make it possible (I cannot even
> > compile current GUB right now, so I'm far from being able to do this
> > within one or 2 weeks).
>
> can someone refresh my mind?  I'm generally against catering for
> broken/old  platforms, but maybe we can make an exception for
> convert-ly ; what broke for python 2.4 ?
John wrote 10 Sept:

"This is a known issue: Python scripts provided with LilyPond officially
require Python 2.4 or newer, but MacOS X Tiger only provides 2.3.  In
this case, convert-ly conversion rules have been rewritten using
decorator syntax rules during 2.11 development, which Python 2.3 doesn't
support."

Trevor