------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Sankey) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin/LilyPond wipeout Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems that my mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is vanishing into thin air. Would you post this as advice to anyone thinking of running LilyPond under Cygwin? If you are trying to instal Cygwin to run LilyPond under Windows NT, expect problems. Lots of them. MikTeX and Gsview install easily. But, several versions of the Cygwin setup program have disabling bugs (including the version posted by RedHat until 3 pm this afternoon). And, if you report such a problem to the Cygwin mailing list, you will be told, in no uncertain terms, that Cygwin is solely for "dedicated software developers and programmers", not for mere users like me. And, you wouldn't believe the mess a Cygwin install makes of an NT disk! You have to defrag after install to avoid serious disk slowdown. I note that Dklite, from http://www.executive.com, is free and works very reliably for me. Anyway, I've been at it for a week so far, and still haven't been able to get as far as installing Jan's specially compiled version of LilyPond on it. (Thanks again, Jan - I wish Cygwin and RedHat had a few people like you!) I've run out of IDE+partition space for RedHat Linux (it demands two of the four partition slots on a disk, and they have to be below 8 GB just like MSDOS and NT bootseg do), so I haven't much choice but to keep trying with NT. I'd sure rather be playing Scarlatti ... John ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ Gnu-music-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-music-discuss
