Re: User Experience Engineering

[Erik Sandberg]

Citerar Marc Weber <address@hidden>:
> Perhaps only providing one installer installing lilypond and jedit +
> lily4jedit, perhaps with the default settings to show the error list
> pluigin docked at the bottom or the like  would have saved those 10 min
> "administration time" ... in case it works out of the box.. ;-)
> Then you don't have to install anything additional..

This is a nice idea. It is however not the job of the lilypond development team.
Lilypond dev should IMHO focus on making lilypond work well. If there is enough
need for a bundled jedit+lilypond package, then anyone could create and
maintain that package (it's all free software after all). I'm sure the lilypond
developers would be happy to link to that package from the downloads page.

> Perhaps it would be also possible to scan registry for looking for adobe
> reader (which is a default application on windows I think)..
> But then you would have to update the installer either if lily4jedit,
> lilypond or jedit has advanced.. That's like downloading a new
> distribition just to install one update..

You can compare this to the autopackages for linux. There is one package called
"install", containing all sorts of things, and one called "upgrade", which only
contains lilypond.

> Then you have all: Woring documentation (through lily4jedit), working
> compiling chain.. and so on ..  The only drawback: You need to speak
> English.. ;-)
> Would you also have to include java JRE 1.5? not sure at the moment..

AFAIK, no java environment ships with windows, so if you want it to work
out-of-the-box, then, yes you would need to include java in the download.

Erik