Re: Testing requested: new manuscript viewer tool for Frescobaldi

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno sab 14 nov 2015 alle 23:36, Simon Albrecht 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> It is a feature of Python (in which frescobaldi is written) that a 
> program needn’t be compiled/installed to be run. You need to
> 1. get the source files for frescobaldi and python-ly from 
> <https://github.com/wbsoft>, either by downloading 
> <https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/archive/manuscript-viewer.zip> 
> and <https://github.com/wbsoft/python-ly/archive/master.zip> or using 
> ‘git clone’ and checking out the ‘manuscript-viewer’ branch.
> 2. add the following three lines to ~/.bashrc, where 
> path/to/python-ly and path/to/frescobaldi are the paths to the 
> respective directories:
> # add python-ly to PYTHONPATH
> PYTHONPATH=path/to/python-ly:$PYTHONPATH
> alias frescobaldi='path/to/frescobaldi/frescobaldi'
> 3. and then you can just run 'frescobaldi' on the command line to 
> test the feature.

Simon, this is probably the best configuration for the terminal.
But frescobaldi.desktop still needs to be adjusted this way:

Exec=sh -c 'frescobaldi'

Do you have better ideas?

I've added the wiki page:
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Run-Frescobaldi-from-git

Anybody is welcomed to improve it, especially Windows users.