Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

[Cláudia Soares]

On 2009/03/28, at 14:59, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:47:43PM +0000, Cláudia Soares wrote:
>
> I'd quite like it to work easily on OSX, although I think that
> convert-ly is much more important than lilypond-book -- any OSX
> user who uses LaTeX will have no problem manually changing the
>   #!/usr/bin/foo
I don't really agree with you on this. There are some people using  
lilypond-book and latex that are not programmers (and are not  
interested in being one).  At least not enough to pass ahead the  
scheme that we normally use in lilypond. Lilypond language is just  
like latex!

And you have to know lots of programming things to get to the  
shebang. The error message just complaints of your python version.  
What to do then?
1- Give up and run Sibelius
2- Google for something like 'python for mac'

After (2) you manage to find http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/ 
PythonDistributionsForMac
 and you might even find the right download for your system.

When you try to run LPB again you get... the same error!!
you think that the thing doesn't work or you could not install the  
python-thingy correctly. What to do?
1- Give up and run Sibelius
2- Call your computer guy/girl  friend
3- oh! you are computer guy/girl! cool!
    If you know anything of scripting you'll try to open file that's  
running.
    you look at the file. It's python.
    If you have any experience with shell scripting and you happen  
to look at the shebang, you've got it!
    Now, you just have to chenge it in every mac you've installed  
the damn thing...



Taking aside our love for OSS, what is one of the biggest advantages  
of lilypond is this ease of integrating music and text in a beautiful  
manner.

Personally, I never used convert-ly but I use lilypond-book quite a  
lot. So it hurts me a lot more.



> I really think that shipping python 2.4 is the best solution,

I don't agree. I want to use the programs in the preference order of  
my $path. I've been through this already. no need to rumble some more.

Cheers,
Cláudia

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