On Sat, 24 May 2008 21:31:16 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You wrote Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:35 PM > > > Any brilliant suggestions? I'm stuck. :| > > First, I'd give the full paths to the file that would be used by > default during install, and say that's what they are. Anyone who > changed the default path should have no trouble adjusting these. So > for Windows it would be: > > C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ > > (Using INSTALLDIR for C:/Program Files doesn't seem right to me.) > > I don't know what the others would be though. The problem is that on Linux, people usually don't install software by downloading it from a web site, clicking on it, clicking next,next,next, etc. Instead, we see a list of available software, and either click on "lilypond", or say $ install lilypond Everything else is taken care of. It's way easier than installing software on windows. However, we (the lilypond crew) have *no* control over where this automatic installation places files. Each linux distribution has its own place to put them. There has been some attempts in recent years to standardize this, but I don't know offhand how this is going. I wouldn't mind changing the windows instructions to be the default value, but since we're already using variables with Linux, is seems a bit out of place. And it's more correct to say INSTALLDIR; if somebody installs it do a different location, the LM is still correct. Now that I'm looking at it again, I definitely think we shoudl say "INSTALLDIR is normally c:\program files\" and whatnot, though. > Second, I'd drop the strong bits and simply use four paras like: > > "If you are using MS Windows (any flavour) and downloaded the > standard version of LilyPond from lilypond.org, the directory of > interest is C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/." > > "If you installed LilyPond by using a package manager or by compiling > it from source the directory of interest on any system is > PREFIX/share/lilypond/X.Y.Z/ > where ... etc" IMO it's more clear which material the user should read this way. If you're on windows, you don't need to see anything about OSX or linux. I wouldn't mind changing it to a list, but I don't think that mere paragraphs are enough. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
