2 buglets, 1 comment

[David Boersma]

Hello,

bug 1 (microbug):

in the INSTALL.txt of lilypond-1.4.7.tar.gz it says that the stable
version is 1.2 and the development version 1.3. Outdated.

bug 2 (wrong link):

I did "make web-doc" (building from 1.4.7 source) and when I now load the
main page Documentation/www-out/index.html and click on Reference manual
(under "General information for users") I get an empty page (with a nice
title, a logo and a menubar on the left). Similarly for "lilypond The
complete user manual". These links point to
Documentation/user/www-out/lilypond/lilypond.html or to a symlink in the
same directory which points to that same file; this file is indeed a dummy
(only title and menu) and the file
Documentation/user/www-out/lilypond.html is obviously the file that should
be linked to. Of course I'd love to submit a patch to repair the
pythonscripts for this mislink but alas I do not speak that language.

comment:

I would like to recommend Lily to a few friends of mine who work with
Windows. My friends are not connected to the internet via a T1 link, I
guess they might appreciate an estimate of the filesizes involved. The
website simply says that the setup.exe does everything for the
installation: install guile, tex, python and (a subset of) cygwin. If you
do not know these things it does not sound like a big deal. But these are
big things, especially tex (order of 10M? 15M?). Since I guess the
setup.exe script is going to download somewhere 10-20M (but I might be
wrong here) I think it would be nice to give the future user in advance a
realistic idea of what is involved. (Or give me that idea, so that I know
I won't loose my friends by recommending lily :-) 

David Boersma
Amsterdam