Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-11 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: By and large, the project is already providing what FreeBSD LilyPond users want and need: a good product, built from clean, open source code which is highly portable to run on a variety of platforms.  Well done, all of you. Hi

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-11 Thread Frank Wuest
Hello, Von: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Technical reasons?  not many.  Cultural reasons?  they don't like binaries. Actually, there are two significant technical reasons: the official FreeBSD packages are usually a bit behind on updates, and if you're running an older version of

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-11 Thread lilypond
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:15:57AM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: By and large, the project is already providing what FreeBSD LilyPond users want and need: a good product, built from clean, open source code which is highly

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/3/10 lilyp...@umpquanet.com: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:51:01AM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/3/10  lilyp...@umpquanet.com: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from:

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:51:01AM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/3/10 lilyp...@umpquanet.com: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from: ftp://umpquanet.com/pub/lilypond-devel-2.15.33.tar

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2012/3/10 lilyp...@umpquanet.com: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from: ftp://umpquanet.com/pub/lilypond-devel-2.15.33.tar What makes it different from

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:59:34AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2012/3/10 lilyp...@umpquanet.com: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from:

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread lilypond
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:33:01AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to answer Francisco's question? Is there a reason you don't want to tell FreeBSD users why they should prefer your ad-hoc port over the official distribution for FreeBSD? What version of

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:15:39PM -0800, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: This port provides a minimal framework compatible with the FreeBSD ports system which permits any ports-enabled BSD system to use standard BSD management tools (portupgrade, pkg_delete, etc.) to build, package, install,

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:33:01AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Is there a reason you don't want to answer Francisco's question? Is there a reason you don't want to tell FreeBSD users why they should prefer your ad-hoc port over the official distribution for

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:00:43PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: Forgive me, I don't mean to be evasive. The official FreeBSD ports tree includes only 2.14.2 at present (as the print/lilypond port). Given that a call for testers was made recently, I

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:00:43PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: lilyp...@umpquanet.com writes: Forgive me, I don't mean to be evasive. The official FreeBSD ports tree includes only 2.14.2 at present (as the print/lilypond port). Given

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread lilypond
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:00:43PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: So what is the difference as compared to the version on the LilyPond download page? What makes the download for FreeBSD that we offer less desirable? I am only one person, and I cannot make global, objective statements about

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-10 Thread lilypond
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:08:45AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Remember: I don't use FreeBSD. Only you can answer this question and thus tell us in what way what we are offering currently is a waste of time and effort. Nah, I can answer the question. :) Relax. He's being a nice

lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-09 Thread lilypond
FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from: ftp://umpquanet.com/pub/lilypond-devel-2.15.33.tar To install it, you should first de-install any previously existing version of lilypond. Then, as root: # cd /usr/ports # tar xvf

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-09 Thread Francisco Vila
2012/3/10 lilyp...@umpquanet.com: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from: ftp://umpquanet.com/pub/lilypond-devel-2.15.33.tar What makes it different from http://lilypond.org/unix.html#Download-3 ? -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-09 Thread lilypond
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:51:01AM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: 2012/3/10 lilyp...@umpquanet.com: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may download an ad-hoc port from: ftp://umpquanet.com/pub/lilypond-devel-2.15.33.tar What makes it different from

Re: lilypond 2.15.33 available as a FreeBSD port

2012-03-09 Thread lilypond
I must correct my omission of acknowledging the help of Pietro Cerutti in creating this port. His expertise and assistance is greatly appreciated. On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:40:20PM -0800, lilyp...@umpquanet.com wrote: FreeBSD users who wish to test the recently-released 2.15.33 candidate may