[SETUP BIG BUG] et.seq.

[Tim Prince]

I made a brief effort to set up lilypond on cygwin, but it has a number of
dependencies which appeared more difficult to satisfy on cygwin than on
linux; since then, I've seen reports of success with python etc. but this
isn't quite out of the box, particularly since lilypond itself appears to
have undocumented dependency on specific old versions of gcc.  I'd be glad
to work on it, but it looked like too much to tackle alone.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sankey" <bf250@freenet.carleton.ca>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SETUP BIG BUG] et.seq.


> I'm a musician, not a programmer, and all I'm trying to do is to give
> people a free world-class edition of Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord
> music with LilyPond under the GNU GPL.
>
> When it takes me most of a week of screwing around to try to get
> Cygwin to work, which it has, then I find that the bug that caused
> all it was noted on this group before I started, I do indeed feel
> like I'm in a war zone. (Not to mention that the reason I'm stuck
> with getting Cygwin to work is because RedHat Linux, which I
> *bought*, refuses to run in one disk partition even though that's
> perfectly legal Unix/Posix and I'm using a 5 MB non-GUI program on a
> machine with 64 MB memory.)
>
> I've now got 8 posts (many in two copies), all but one of which went
> off like a landmine to shoot the messenger. (One of the 7 apologised
> after he read the prior posts and realised how bad the problem was.)
> BTW, I DID download all the files that were at the mirror I used.
>
> If RedHat doesn't start putting users first, they are going to end up
> like DEC. GNU deserves better.
>
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