On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:49:26PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > It might be a good idea to provide users with a version-independent > URL, such as files.lilynet.net/lilybuntu-latest.iso (this way I can > just maintain the symlink without having the CG everytime a new iso is > out).
I would rather not do that -- I *want* people to have to update the CG when a new iso is out. This should only happen once or twice a year, and requiring a CG-patch will hopefully make the author check over the "quick start" instructions to ensure that they still match the actual iso. For example, if somebody uses lilybuntu 2.1 but follows the instructions from current git, they will be unable to download the source. They will type: cd wish lily-git.tcl and see this: Error in startup script: couldn't read file "lily-git.tcl": no such file or directory We do *not* want this to happen in the "ultra-reliable, easy-to-get-started, no-unix-skillzors-necessary" part of the CG. > Likewise, you might also want to consider giving a torrent link (in > many cases it's the preferred way of downloading a LiveCD image). I see two problems with this: 1. unless we have more than 1 seeder, a torrent actually requires _more_ upload bandwidth from you. Torrents are less efficient than plain old http. 2. do all "inexperienced but helpful users" know how to use torrents? Maybe, maybe not. ... that said, I just realized that you were probably asking about giving a torrent link in addition to the http download. No problem there; I'll add it to the @advanced bit. (I'm still not convinced that it will save any bandwidth, but I'll add it just in case people want to feel more geeky) > BTW: since we are effectively distributing a full-blown GNU/Linux > distro, we might want to consider naming it differently; as things > currently are, I'm afraid we're committing a trademark infringement of > sorts: Mao. Ok, Jonathan: you're making this thing, so you have final say on the name. Based on the discussion, I would recommend: - don't mention "virtual", since you can of course install lilybuntu in a dual-boot (or even single-boot) system. - I don't recommend going for a generic name like "frog linux"; we should be clear that this is for lilypond. - I don't recommend simply calling it "lilypond linux", since some people might think that you need this thing just to run lilypond. I still slightly favor something like "u-lily-contrib", but the final decision is officially yours. Let's call the next version 1.0, and Valentin will delete the "infringing" iso names from his files.lilynet.net once we have the new version. I'll be updating issue 1454 in an hour or two with a new (final?) wishlist of changes relative to 2.1, so please wait until then before uploading a new version. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
