2010/5/27 William Bajzek <williambaj...@gmail.com>: > On May 27, 2010, at 8:33 AM, lilypond-devel-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > >> Did you ever try LilyBuntu? IIRC, you were trying to get it set up on your >> Mac without success, and when Graham suggested you try LilyBuntu you were >> too disgusted with the time you'd spent trying to get it going on your Mac >> to try the LilyBuntu route. >> >> My experience has been that getting the build system going on GNU/Linux >> systems is, while not trivial, certainly much more reliable than on OS/X. >> On OS/X, we're kind of on our own. And on Windows, it's even worse. >> >> But I thought that the LilyBuntu setup gave a Windows/Mac user a reasonable >> approach to setting up a development environment. > > I tried LilyBuntu using "Q" as my virtual machine runner. It took about 12+ > hours to build
That's painful. It's a 10-12x factor relative to a reasonable time. No surprise you gave up. On a native Ubuntu installation (for example), if something fails you can hopefully diagnose the problem and try again dozens of times a day. Change your VM/computer/whatever. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
