Re: a new way to build LilyPond binary releases

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 12 mar 2020 alle 14:39, Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> The usage of plain archives has the advantage that the user can 
> install
> and move the files anywhere, without invoking any installer. That is 
> by
> design, but maybe there's a valid use case for installers that I'm
> missing? Uninstalling is just as easy as deleting the files (the
> scripts from GUB don't do more than that anyhow).

If you use lilypond with Frescobaldi only, this approach is fine.

But if you want to use it in a terminal, then you have to make some 
adjustments: adding the path to PATH for each version installed,... 
(and you don't have the man page available, but I admit it's not that 
useful.)
I find installers convenient in this regard.