Re: A thought on Windows Experience

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 07/12/13 17:14, Phil Holmes wrote:
> I've already said I oppose this, and I'll restate this.

I think it's unfortunate that your opposition consists of just saying "no", 
rather than trying to work out if there are ways to get what you want _and_ get 
what other people are suggesting.

For example, your objection is based on the assumption that every time there's a 
new Lilypond release, you'll have to go to the Lilypond website, download a new 
installer, and install over the old version, remembering each time to deselect 
the install components you don't want.

You assume that (for example) it's not possible for the installer to auto-detect 
your existing implementation and by default select only the installed components 
to upgrade; or that it's not possible for the Lilypond install to include an 
upgrade tool which alerts you to the existence of a new release and downloads 
and installs the updated components for you.

All of this requires somebody to look into how to achieve these things, and to 
implement them.  People shouldn't be discouraged from exploring these 
possibilities by pre-emptive judgements about what they will come up with.