[ANN] Frescobaldi 2.0 development progress, runs already on Windows

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Hi all,

just to update interested people about the progress of Frescobaldi 2.0, and 
let you know I managed to get it running on Windows. Testers are welcome :-) 
The Frescobaldi 2.0 feature set is far from complete yet, but the basics are 
in good shape.

Frescobaldi (dedicated LilyPond text editor) 2.0 is designed to run on all 
major platforms and depends only on Python, PyQt4 and Poppler and the poppler-
qt4 python binding. Target 2.0.0 release date is Christmas 2011.

On Linux. Frescobaldi 2.0 already works well. Use Qt4.7, PyQt4.7 or 4.8, 
Python 2.6 or 2.7, Poppler and python-poppler-qt4 (from [1]) and git clone 
[2]. See the README[3] for what is already functioning and how to use it.

[1] http://python-poppler-qt4.googlecode.com/
[2] git://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi.git
[3] https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/blob/master/README

I have not yet a Windows installer for the popplerqt4 plugin that powers the 
PDF preview. It should be compiled from source, together with Poppler itself. 
I did not try that yet, but Frescobaldi can run without the PDF preview.

Here is how to test Frescobaldi on Windows:

- Install Git from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
- Install Python 2.7 from www.python.org
- Install PyQt4 from 
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
Note: use the same Python version (2.7 recommended)

- Of course: install LilyPond (latest dev recommended)

- Open Git Bash from the start menu
- Enter commands:
git clone git://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi.git
cd frescobaldi
/c/Python27/python frescobaldi

And voilá! You can edit LilyPond documents and run LilyPond.

To create an installer:
/c/Python27/python setup.py bdist_wininst

Then run the installer (.exe file) from the dist/ directory.
It will even create a Start menu entry!

Windows TODO:
- fix RuntimeError+crash when closing the window via the close button
  (File->Quit works well)
- let bdist_wininst create a file association for *.ly to Frescobaldi (how?)
- make an installer for python-poppler-qt4 to get a working PDF preview


best regards,
Wilbert Berendsen

-- 
Frescobaldi, LilyPond editor for KDE: http://www.frescobaldi.org/