Re: Releasing 2.20

[Masamichi Hosoda]

> Hans Aikema <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> David,
>>
>> Make sure that your main focus will be getting back into good shape.
>>
>> If schedule and energy levels allow for starting of a 2.20 branch I
>> think it would be good to update ghostscript to a version that has the
>> PNG-transparency glitches fixed that surfaced in 2.19.51.
>> Ghostscript has made a release with the fix for the issue that was
>> created by Masamichi Hosoda as a result of the discovery of the
>> PNG-transparency bug in the 2.19.51 Lilypond build)
> 
> That's more a matter of GUB than of LilyPond.  GhostScript is more of a
> runtime dependency so it's not really something we would refuse a build
> for.

I've sent a pull request that updates GUB's Ghostscript to 9.21.
https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/39

However, on FreeBSD 32 bit, both Ghostscript 9.20 and 9.21 crash.
So only for FreeBSD 32 bit, Ghostscript 9.15 is used.

Linux 64 bit, Linux 32 bit, Linux PPC, FreeBSD 64 bit,
and Windows are no problem.

In my humble opinion, after or before releasing 2.20,
it is better to discontinue some platforms' binary release.