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Subject: Re: 2.6: Please don't take my Cygwin away
From: Colin Wilding <colin.wilding () gmail ! com>
Date: 2005-06-30 13:50:02
Message-ID: f2ca6cc0050630065060774c3e () mail ! gmail ! com
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Jan
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm really pleased that both the
Cygwin and the native Windows version will be there, and I can see the
advantages of the native version for many people.
> Also, GNU/Linux is far superior to Windows+Cygwin.
Definitely. I use the GNU/Linux version whenever I can. But
Windows+Cygwin is the closest I can get to it on the machine I have to
use most of the time :-)
Colin
On 6/30/05, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
> Colin Wilding writes:
>
> > I've tried the Windows version, and I am sure some people will like
> > it, but it's not for me:
>
> That's fine. Native Windows version is not primarily targetted at
> Cygwin users.
>
> > 1. There seems so be no feedback at the command line. If I am updating an
> > existing file then the only way I can tell whether a run has completed is by
> > watching Explorer to see when the time stamps are updated.
> > 2. I can't find a way to run the .exe at the command line that will display
> > help, e.g. a list of options.
> > 3. If a run fails the report does not display on the command line, only via
> > the log file opening in Lilypad.
>
> See
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-06/msg00299.html
>
> > 4. convert-ly is still in Python so I have to run that in Cygwin anyway.
>
> See
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-06/msg00625.html
>
> > 5. I generally run Lilypond from jEdit and I'm not sure if I can get jEdit
> > to run the native version.
>
> See the mail archives, I think this is solved.
>
> > 6. I use LaTeX on Cygwin and I want to integrate Lilypond files using
> > lilypond-book
> > 7. The native version seems to use the Windows fonts, rather than the Cygwin
> > fonts
>
> Cygwin is not required for the native Windows version, that is the
> whole idea.
>
> > that I use on LaTeX (in fact I have no idea how Pango relates to the
> > Windows fonts)
>
> > 8. bash is far superior to the Windows command line.
>
> The mandatory bash command line interface, the required knowlegde of
> TeX, and the too difficult/error prone installation methods were the
> biggest problems for wider acception of Lilypond.
>
> Also, GNU/Linux is far superior to Windows+Cygwin.
>
> Greetings,
> Jan.
>
> --
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org
>
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