Re: LilyDev 5.0 released

[Federico Bruni]

Il 28 dic 2016 8:46 PM Thomas Morley <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>
> Hi Federico, 
>
> 2016-12-14 13:53 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni <address@hidden>: 
> > Hi all 
> > 
> > Eventually I managed to build the new ISO. 
> > I decided to upgrade to Stretch (still in testing), because otherwise I had 
> > problems with pinning guile-2.0 from testing. Another advantage is that in 
> > Stretch there's also LxQT (successor of LXDE), which seems lightweight, 
> > fast 
> > and feature-rich. 
> > 
> > You can donwload the image here: 
> > https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/releases/tag/v5.0 
> > 
> > Let me know if you find any problem. 

>
> I just tried it, but had to download a newer VirtualBox than my 64-bit 
> Ubuntu-16.04 offered, i.e I switched from 5.0.24 to 5.1.11. 
> It firstly didn't work out, although I followed Jame's advice right 
> from the start. No idea how I got it finally working ... 
>

I don't know what might be wrong with older versions of VirtualBox, as I test 
the images with libvirt only.

> Though, I was surprised not to find the lilypond-git-repo. Did I 
> overlook somthing? 
> Anyway I cloned it manually. 
>

The first time you log in you should see a terminal popping up and asking for 
your name and email for git commits; then all the required repos are downloaded.
The setup script is called by this file:

https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/blob/master/config/includes.chroot/etc/skel/.config/autostart/lilydev.desktop

Do you have this file within your home directory? 
~/.config/autostart/lilydev.desktop

Is qterminal installed?

I'm on a mobile phone now, I'll check it on 2nd of January.

> Compiling LilyPond with ../configure --enable-guile2 returns: 
> [...] 
> WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files:  URW++ 
> OTF fonts (download OTF files from 
> 'http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core35-fonts.git;a=commit;h=79bcdfb34fbce12b592cce389fa7a19da6b5b018'
>  
> and put them under '~/.local/share/fonts' etc., or use 
> --with-urwotf-dir) extractpdfmark (Optionally using Ghostscript >= 
> 9.20 together with Extract PDFmark can significantly reduce the disk 
> space required for building the documentation and the final PDF 
> files.) 
> [...] 
>
> May I suggest to include those fonts in next release? 
>

I thought about including the fonts, but then I changed my mind because they 
are optional and there's an open issue in the tracker to find a solution for 
this. But I can add them, if you think it's worth.

>
> Otherwise it works fine so far, maybe a bit slower than usual. (Not 
> LilyPond, but the whole thingy.) 
> Or maybe more memory-consuming (I remember this from earlier versions of VB). 
>

Strange, I experienced the opposite. I guess that it depends on the hardware?