Re: 2.91.84 - windows-only bugs

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> iirc in Salzburg there was the plan to do a 2.19.84-release, soon
> followed by stable 2.20
> May I ask how's the state of 2.19.84?

I just got news from Phil (who had been offline for a while) and he
plans to set to it this weekend, time allowing.

> I ask because, in the german forum Arnold found a method to cure some
> windows-only bugs., about mis-predicted force and probably several
> assertion-failures:
> https://lilypondforum.de/index.php/topic,609.msg3463.html#msg3463
>
> Though,  this would first need to be reviewed and put in the source
> and then been tested by users.
> For the latter, I made a windows-installer containing this patch and
> could post about it on -user for testing.
>
> Alternatively, we could postpone it, implementing it in 2.21
>
> Thoughts?

After 2.19.84, we stipulated a two-week window until 2.20.  I'd propose
that you try getting the respective patch into review right now if it is
ok for you, and we aim for its appearance in 2.19.84 (by being as rushed
about including it and cherry-picking into the stable branch as
appropriate, and, if push comes to shove, giving a slight delay to
2.19.84).  This is kind of an important thing to have fixed in the
stable release if we see a chance of doing so, and having that two-week
window would be a good thing.

I haven't yet looked at the patch/discussion yet: this is just my first
reaction rather than an LGTM.

-- 
David Kastrup