Re: A thought on Windows Experience

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/12/7 Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden>:
> On 06/12/13 23:37, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>>
>> Well, i'm not familiar with this area, but keep in mind that one has
>> to find a free, open-source solution that works for every platform we
>> support (Win, Mac, various Unixes) and can be automated.  It's not
>> enough to go and create one installer - we need software that would
>> recreate such installer, without manual intervention, for every
>> release.
>
>
> I don't see why you assume that.  There's no particular reason why you need
> an identical bundled install for every platform -- different platforms come
> with different expectations on the part of users, so it should be fine to
> have e.g. a Windows installer that bundles Lilypond with an appropriate IDE,
> whereas on GNU/Linux you just install Lilypond itself.

you're probably right.  as i said, i don't know this stuff.