From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Wiz Aus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lilypond-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Illegal C++
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:55:40 -0700
"Wiz Aus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> miss the many admittedly powerful tools that are available under linux.
> But never yet have I felt the slightly bit compelled to choose to
develop
> under that platform. I'm sorry, but I like my GUI's, and my single
> keystroke
> compile and debug cycles, and not to having to worry about which version
> of which package is compatible with another and why this scripting
command
> works here and not there. And I'm quite obviously not the only one.
> I'm more than willing to contribue towards lilypond development, but I
doubt
> I would bother if I had to do it in a linux environment.
Hrm, I run Debian and have all that wondrous stuff.
It's certainly possible that linux-based IDE's have come along since I last
played
around with them (probably 5 years ago now), but I don't get the impression
that
the configure scripts/makefiles etc. for lilypond were generated by an IDE,
or would
be readable by one. They look pretty well hand-crafted to me.
To be honest, even if I liked linux as an OS better than Windows overall
(which I don't - they both have their merits and their weaknesses), I would
still choose
to work under Windows because too many of the applications that I have a
vested
interest in (e.g. due to proprietry document formats) are only available
there.
And given that I work under Windows, I'm not prepared to switch to another
OS
every time I want to do development - especially because I'm perfectly happy
developing under Windows.
Windows is perfectly capable of supporting all the development tools I can
ever
imagine needing, so there's absolutely no reason that compiling and
debugging
lilypond under Windows should be at all difficult - providing that the
existing
development team don't labour with a "who cares about people who don't
use gnu/linux anyway" mindset. Given I don't see much chance of that
changing,
my enthusiasm level for being part of lilypond development is struggling
somewhat.
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