Hi, Undeniably the mass market at the moment would look to be using Windoze as a platform. If we could see an end to dependance on Cygwin, that would (partly) open the door to mass acceptance of Lilypond by the general public. Certainly if, as Erik says it could be boxed up for one-step installation so that the Cygwin layer were packaged up with it, novice users would find it more acceptable.
I did try to install Cygwin once in the past just to see what it was like and it was clunky to say the least. Ordinary users just don't want that hassle. A lot of issues raised on the users groups seem to be related to Cygwin and getting it up and running. Seeing Lilypond in the shops in a box would be so cool and would be nice to see some of the revenue returned to assist our friends Han-Wen, Jan et al. Regards, Ralph > > I believe that in the end, if finale & sibelius are to be beaten, someone > should also sell lilypond in some kind of nice boxed form. I believe that it > too often happens that a musician just goes to the music shop, and checks > ....<snip> -------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tribaldata.co.uk ...or see what I do in my spare time: www.skelmanthorpeband.org -------------------------------------- "Man who shoot off mouth... expect to lose face." --------- Tribal Data Solutions has moved, please visit our website for more details http://www.tribaldata.co.uk. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and are sent on the basis of our copyright, e-mail and security policy which can be inspected by visiting http://www.tribaldata.co.uk/policies.asp. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete this message. Thank you. ----------- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
