> I was wondering, therefore, whether it wouldn't be possible to make > prebuilt pfa fonts for each version available for download. I'd > estimate that a gzipped tar of the type1 fonts would be approximately > as large as the source archive.
Having just packaged lilypond-2.0 for the PLD distribution (though with the remaining /bin/sh issue), I can vouch for this: Tracking down the dependencies was a pain, and mftrace was among the harder to find. (It's also not well documented that one needs it, where to find it, et cetera.) Reducing these dependencies by making a static archive available would help make compiling from source much more feasible for the average user -- and that's a good thing, I think, especially with the binary incompatibility of most C++ libraries and compilers still. (That meaning that many users will have to compile it or wait until a compatible distribution shows up to download) Also, documenting what fonts are used to build everything would be nice, too. I had to track down a ton of font dependencies (since PLD puts fonts in separate packages from tetex-2.0's base backage). Ari
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