Hi, On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > FWIW I also like the idea of having less dependencies, but not at the > > price of being unable to hack the source. Even if that is the source > > to a font. > > Well, adding pre-compiled fonts to the tarball just remove a dependency. > As soon as you remove the fonts, they are rebuilt. Where's the problem? Heh. That is a hard-learnt lesson from another project. It is a matter of pure _luck_ which timestamp is newer: that of the prebuilt font, or that of the source. (I assume optimistically that you do not even think about proposing to not rebuild the font even when the source is newer.) But then comes the worse part: you remove a dependency (actually quite a bunch in one go). Alright. But let's assume you want to fiddle with the font: now you need the programs to rebuild the font. And here's the rub: since they are no longer dependencies, you have to search for them and install them by hand. There is nothing helping you there, and from my past experience with LilyPond, finding and installing all the required programs can easily get very, very painful. It is a fix, I admit. But at least when you are on a sane platform, you can ask the platform's package manager to please install all dependencies automatically for you. Ciao, Dscho _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
