Re: Lilypond working on Mac OS X 10.5, thanks

[James E. Bailey]

Am 02.07.2008 um 22:50 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen:

> On 7/2/08 2:41 PM, "Eric Knapp" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > It works! I have a modified applescript that will open the hyperlink
> > into TextMate. The TextMate command line utility only has the ability
> > to go to a specified line in the file but that's OK with me. Would
> > there be a place where we could document this and put these scripts
> > up? I would clean up the TextMate version and document it for the
> > community. I would also add attribution to Christopher.
> >
> > -Eric
>
> This kind of goes against the LilyPond philosophy of one GUB for all
> possible platforms, so I'm not sure how it might be implemented in the
> standard LilyPond website/distribution.  Perhaps Han-Wen could chime  
> in
> here.
>
> In the meantime, it is certain that you could start a git repo at
> repo.or.cz, and the repo could contain the files ready for  
> installation.
> Then users could directly download from there.
>
> I'm sure there are more elegant ways to handle the distribution of  
> this
> stuff, but I'm not sure what they are.  I've copied this email to - 
> devel,
> because that's where the core developers hang out.
>
> Carl
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It's the first I've heard of such a thing, and it might persuade me to  
go back to using TeXShop for editing instead of nano. I use the  
distributed PPC binary, so I kinda want to keep that, and right now, I  
just turn point-and-click off in every file (it's kind of annoying to  
accidentally click something in a score and then have to force-quit  
the lilypad.

But, from a standardization point of view, why not just scrap the  
lilypad on OSX altogether? None of the other platforms have a built-in  
editor, it's confusing to have a broken editor on the macintosh, and  
it would probably be easier to just leave that bit out (of the 10.5  
branch) at least.

Thats my 0.2¢