2008/3/26, Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Will there be a Leopard version available soon? I tried to follow the steps > involved to get LilyPond working but I am a musician not a computer > programmer - > LOL! It's too complicated...
Yes, it is complicated. However, it does work... I am musician too, not a programmer. Most of us are musicians, not programmers. But Free Software doesn't live because of programmers, it lives because of the users that get involved. You don't owe anything to the developers, nor do they owe you anything; when using LilyPond, you are not a customer -- you are part of a collective project. Plus, perhaps you haven't thought that Apple broke their code in the first place, not us. You can't blame any LilyPond developer for an Apple-specific defect. Nicolas Sceaux has managed to make it work, perhaps if you write him he'll send you a binary... http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/index.php/2008/01/20/26-building-lilypond-from-git-sources-on-mac-os-105-intel You should remember that LilyPond is *only* a non-graphical program that processes text-files (the .ly source files) and turn them into a PDF score. In other words, the nice icons, menus etc are *not* an essential part of the program at all (besides, all non-MacOS LilyPond versions do not have any menu or icon)! All they do is to launch the main program, but you can launch it without using any menu... That's what Ivo's script is about, and honestly, I think he's done a great job -- perhaps you should try harder. Everybody he's ready to help you and give you clear explanations; just ask, and be patient. Cheers, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
