Hi Dave, list, > I was looking at the page: > > http://lilypond.org/web/download/windows.html > > and am unclear as to what I should do. How can > http://cygwin.com/setup.exe know about lilypond? Cygwin consists of several packages. One of these pacakges is Lilypond.
Lilypond gets built by a Cygwin developer (or, in this case, more of a 'maintainer'), and uploaded to a central server. From there, it is distributed to servers around the world, and you can download it from there. > I already use cygwin, in fact I have two cygwin > trees, one on c: and another on d: (and I have no > clue which I am really using.) Do I still install > by downloading cygwin.exe? By just running one of > the setup.exe's I already have? Or with cygwin > already installed, is there some other method I > should use to install lilypond? You can re-run the 'setup.exe' you already have, go to the 'Publishing' section, and put a check next to 'Lilypond'. Cygwin will update your already installed packages, and also install Lilypond (plus the packages that Lilypond needs to work). > Also, does lilypond uninstall easily (like by rm > -rf myLilypondDirectory) or do I have to fiddle > with the Windows registry? Or is there a good > uninstall facility? I am concerned about this > because my disk drives are getting full and > windows install/uninstall has never seemed very > robust to me. I'm not sure about this... Cygwin puts all 'executables' in /usr/bin. Perhaps re-running setup, and clearing the checkmark next to Lilypond would work, but I think you'd better ask the Cygwin mailing list about this. I'll let others comment on your other points, since I'm way out of my teritory is I do :-) Don't forget to send a copy of any mails you send to the mailing list for archival purposes. Christ van Willegen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
