Re: PDF not shown in Frescobaldi

[Federico Bruni]

On Tue, 16 Jun, 2020 at 13:02, Noeck <noeck.marburg@gmx.de> wrote:
> By the way, one of several reasons to my own Frescobaldi was that the
> version from the package repository depends on lilypond which depends 
> on
> python2 as the only application on my system. (I know, I could 
> instruct
> apt to ignore it and the lilypond installer also ships with python2).

IMO Frescobaldi package should not have lilypond as dependency, given 
that a) you can have your own "self-contained" installations from 
lilypond.org; b) lilypond package throws in a lot of dependencies 
(TexLive is the biggest one).

Maybe packagers are worried that a new user might complain that 
Frescobaldi can't do anything.
Perhaps Frescobaldi might check on startup if lilypond is installed and 
warn the user if it's not. Looks like a viable solution on Linux and 
Mac, but maybe not on Windows?
Ah, I found an old discussion on this topic:
https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/313