What is the current version of Humdrum?
The current official distribution for Humdrum is Version 1.0. Humdrum continues to be up-dated by adding options to some tools, fixing bugs, and augmenting the Toolkit with new commands. More recent versions exist — up to Version 2.6, however, these versions are not official distributions. In order for a version to be designated “official,” we test all of the tools using extensive test suites on a wide variety of hardware platforms, running different operating systems, and using different compilers. This is a time-consuming process and can be done only when we have funds to hire a programmer for about a month. When making modifications to Humdrum, we don’t know whether the modifications we have made are fully portable to other systems. Without full-scale testing of the software on a variety of platforms, it is not a good idea to replace the former distributed version. Hence the discrepancy between the “official” version and more current versions. Users are free to use later versions,
