Re: 2.6: Please don't take my Cygwin away

[Colin Wilding]

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 <address@hidden> 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.
> 
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