LilyPond – Muzieknotatie voor iedereen: Development

## Development

## Development for LilyPond 2.14.2

Nota bene : These are unstable development versions. If you have the slightest doubt about how to use or install LilyPond, we urge you to use the stable Download, and read the stable Manuals.

### Release numbers

There are two sets of releases for LilyPond: stable releases, and unstable development releases. Stable versions have an even-numbered ‘minor’ version number (e.g., 2.8, 2.10, 2.12). Development versions have an odd-numbered ‘minor’ version number (e.g., 2.7, 2.9, 2.11).

### Download

Instructions for git and compiling are in the Contributor’s Guide.

> lilypond git repository

Documentation writers and testers will generally want to download the latest binary:

> Linux x86: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> Linux 64: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> Linux PPC: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> FreeBSD i386: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> FreeBSD amd64: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> MacOS X x86: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> MacOS X PPC: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> Windows: LilyPond 2.15.1-1

> Source: lilypond-2.15.1.tar.gz

### Contributor’s Guide

LilyPond development is a fairly complicated matter. In order to help new contributors, and to keep the whole system (mostly) stable, we have written a manual for development tasks.

- Contributor’s Guide (split HTML) - the manual is split between many HTML pages.
  (small download for each page)
- Contributor’s Guide (big HTML) - read this manual as one huge HTML page.
  (large single download, 500 kB)
- contributor.pdf - download as a PDF file.
  (large single download, 2.8 MB)

### Regression tests

- Regression tests: This release’s regtests. (pdf version)
- MusicXML tests: This release’s musicXML tests. (pdf version)
- abc2ly tests: This release’s abc2ly tests. (pdf version)
- lilypond-book tests: This release’s lilypond-book tests. (pdf version)

#### All versions

- Comparisons between regression tests
- Archive of all regression tests

### Manuals

Nota bene : These manuals are for LilyPond 2.14.2; the latest manuals can be found at http://lilypond.org

Introduction
Learning (split HTML) | Learning (big HTML) | learning.pdf
Glossary (split HTML) | Glossary (big HTML) | music-glossary.pdf
Essay (split HTML) | Essay (big HTML) | essay.pdf
Regular
Notation (split HTML) | Notation (big HTML) | notation.pdf
Usage (split HTML) | Usage (big HTML) | usage.pdf
Snippets (split HTML) | Snippets (big HTML) | snippets.pdf
Infrequent
Web (split HTML) | Web (big HTML) | web.pdf
Changes (split HTML) | Changes (big HTML) | changes.pdf
Extending (split HTML) | Extending (big HTML) | extending.pdf
Internals (split HTML) | Internals (big HTML) | internals.pdf

Andere talen: English, česky, deutsch, español, français, magyar, italiano, 日本語, 中文.

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