On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:59:48AM +0000, James Lowe wrote: > Hans Aberg wrote: >> On 7 Mar 2010, at 08:12, James Bailey wrote: >> >> They are different: LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ has other >> stuff in it than just the lilypond programs, for example ps2pdf. If one >> adds this location to the environment variable PATH, one must decide >> which version of these to call. > > From a user's point of view why is it done like this? Why have two 'bin' > locations and not just put it all in > > LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/
That *is* what we do. And that's why you shouldn't set your PATH to be that dir. we distribute, for example, ps2pdf. Apple includes its own ps2pdf. If the lilypond ps2pdf was called all the time (if you modified your path), then certain other programs might stop working. that's not ideal. It should be possible to have two different bin locations inside the lilypond.app, and direct people to add one of them to their path. Setting this up would take 1-3 hours for somebody who knows about osx app bundles, unix shell environments, has gub installed and can use it, and is familiar with make and python and shell scripts. If somebody doesn't know the above, then add time as required. Installing and using GUB, for example, would take anywhere from 2 to 200 hours. I don't see anything happening on this issue for months. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
