Re: LilyDev - some questions

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 9 mag 2018 alle 22:10, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> On 5/9/18, 12:08 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Federico Bruni" 
> <address@hidden on behalf of 
> address@hidden> wrote:
>     Don't you have a date&time configuration in the system settings?
>     I'll have a look and see if I can improve this. The thing is that 
> these
>     new LilyDev machines (compared to the old ones) come ready to be 
> used,
>     without the hassle of a step-by-step installation (which on the 
> other
>     hand would allow to configure the system as you like). It's a 
> trade off.
>
> Federico,
>
> I really appreciate your work on maintaining and improving LilyDev.  
> It's SOOO much better to have LilyDev than to have to create my own 
> installation from genric distro iso's.  You've really cut down the 
> work required for me to get a usable development environment on my 
> MacBook pro.
>
> That being said, I don't find the latest versions of LilyDev to be an 
> nice as previous versions.  I don't like the pre-configured setup.  I 
> didn't want my user name to be dev.
>
> I went back to LilyDev 4 and just installed updated Ghostscript and 
> the URW fonts.  I'm happier that way.
>
> I can't speak for others, but for me, I want LilyDev to solve all of 
> the problems of which Unix distro I should use and which packages I 
> should have installed.  But I want to do my own setup customization 
> for users, time-zone, language, etc.
>
> Also, it's a challenge to me that we keep moving Unix distros 
> (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora).  I've been really happy with Debian.  I'd 
> like to avoid changing away from it if at all possible.

Hi Carl

Thanks for the feedback!

I started writing a draft of this reply two months ago but I didn't 
send it as I hoped I had the time of addressing these issues. But 
recently I've been busy with other LilyPond stuff.

Some quick comments:

- I'll create a Debian virtual machine, as most LilyPond developers are 
used to Debian-based distros.
- I can restore the installation setup for the virtual machine. Not for 
containers, but I may add some tips about configuring user, time-zone, 
language, etc.
- Finally I'd like to figure out a way of running the containers also 
in a Windows or Mac host machine. See this issue:
https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/issues/251

I'm not sure when, but sooner or later I'll do it.

Best
Federico