Re: Lilypond slow to start up on the Mac

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Tim,

The development versions are very stable. I hammer them all day with massively complex scores, and no problems arise. The term 'unstable' is a self deprecating conventional trope of modesty used in the open source world.

Take the risk - it's worth it. And there are so many good new features I could not live without. What can you lose? If on the off chance it crashes, go back to 2.18.

Andrew

On 24 April 2018 at 23:46, Tim McNamara <address@hidden> wrote:

I am seeing these very long launch times with 2.18.2-1 which the thread states is not showing the font cache rebuild problem.  I don’t use the development versions as I lack the actual computer skills necessary to deal with any problems that might occur.  I can’t even code “Hello, world” in any language.  ;-)