Re: battle-plan for 2.5 development

[Mats Bengtsson]

Ralph Little wrote:
> Hi,
> Undeniably the mass market at the moment would look to be using Windoze
> as a platform.
> If we could see an end to dependance on Cygwin, that would (partly) open
> the door to mass acceptance of Lilypond by the general public.
> Certainly if, as Erik says it could be boxed up for one-step
> installation so that the Cygwin layer were packaged up with it, novice
> users would find it more acceptable.
>
> I did try to install Cygwin once in the past just to see what it was
> like and it was clunky to say the least.

Really? I've experienced many Windows programs that are much more
tricky to install than cygwin. I think that the actual installation
is a minor problem compared to the mental steps going from mouse
based windows programs to the text based input of LilyPond.
Now when you can simply double-click on a file to process it, most
windows users will only need to open the cygwin command window when
they have upgraded LilyPond and have to run convert-ly.

I know that feature requests shouldn't go to this mailing thread, but
how about adding an option in the right-click menu to run convert-ly
on the file?

> Ordinary users just don't want that hassle. A lot of issues raised on
> the users groups seem to be related to Cygwin and getting it up and
> running.


   /Mats