Re: mac osx terminal instructions

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:00:05AM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2010, at 08:12, James Bailey wrote:
>
>> Currently, the instructions on getting LilyPond up and running in a  
>> terminal on mac osx have the user create a script which calls the  
>> lilypond application, and then add the location of the script to the  
>> $PATH. Is there any advantage of this over just having the user add  
>> the location of the lilypond binary to the $PATH?
>
> 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.

I'd forgotten about this, thanks!

> But one could add /usr/local/bin/ before the 
> Lilypond directory. In addition, I have paths to MacPorts /opt/, Fink 
> /sw/, and TeX-Live /usr/local/texlive/ TeX.
>
> LilyPond seems fairly up-to-date, so it might be added after before or  
> after MacPorts.

If you rely on "seems fairly up-to-date", then any time there's a
version clash, you could get serious problems.  I think the shell
script way is more reliable.

Cheers,
- Graham