Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

[James E. Bailey]

> > Sure, if you're up on your
> > Linux, no problem, but the Linux world is drawing a number of people
> > who come from other backgrounds (i.e., Windows), AND don't have a lot
> > of time to study up.
>
> Knowing that you run a program by doing
>  cd progdir
>  ./progname
> or adding it to your PATH environment variable isn't a great deal
> of knowledge.
>
> - Graham

But if your only previous experience running software is double- 
clicking, it's pretty daunting. And most software that requires that  
knowledge is written by people who already know it. I'll say it,  
lilypond was the first thing I ran on a command line. And it took me  
about two weeks (maybe longer) following the directions in the  
lilypond tutorial on how to do it.

For example, if it's the first time you've seen it, path/to/ 
Lilypond.app can be confusing. Most macintosh applications don't show  
the suffix, so I had to figure out that the "LilyPond" program in my  
applications folder was actually "LilyPond.app". Secondly, I had to  
figure out that path/to/ is the actual path to LilyPond, not something  
else.