Re: LilyPond 2.16+ on WINE 1.0

[Felix Janda]

Hello,

> My options are:
> 
>   1.  Install Sarge's lilypond package and related software
>        - this will leave the user stuck in 2005 with LilyPond 2.2.6.
> 
>   2.  Try to compile all the prerequisites for a newer LilyPond
>        - this is a headache because so much is outdated on Sarge
>        (even the version of Python is too old), and you can't even
>        get a recent enough version of gcc without bootstrapping it.
> 
>   3.  Try to run a newer distro in a chroot environment
>       - but how long would it be before I hit something that
>       doesn't get on well with that old 2.4 kernel?
> 
>   4.  Use WINE.

Is there no way to upgrade the kernel? From what I've read Debian Sarge
also ran 2.6.8.

Have you tried some (current) lightweight distributions?

Felix