2008/8/20 Tom Cloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Such a comment is NOT appropriate when dealing with someone who want to join > the community of Linux users, and, say use Lilypond, but isn't about to > "read the code". Can't, in fact. The quality of the Lilypond documentation, > and the clarity of the syntax (in my experience so far) makes it possible to > do a lot with a modest degree of knowledge. That's good. But when something > as basic as program installation requires knowledge which I have needed to > have at any point in the past 6 months, as I said, THEN I think we have a > real problem.
May I ask how, in your opinion, we could improve this installer? Of course we wish this software could be used by anyone, out-of-the-box, no matter their computing skills or their operating system. But we cannot provide *and* maintain packages for all major distributions (we don't have enough people and ressources to maintain up-to-date packages). We used to provide auto-packages, but this seems to be very rarely used actually (and not easier to use than our current installer, in fact). We provide a shell script, that is *perfectly* maintained for both our stable and development versions, and for a wide range of operating systems and architectures. It can either be run in root mode (files go to /usr/local/) or in user mode (files goes to your home directory, which I definitely do not like but which can be prefered for non-power-users). What could the next step be? Cheers, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
