Re: a new way to build LilyPond binary releases

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Freitag, den 13.03.2020, 13:59 +0100 schrieb Federico Bruni:
> Il giorno gio 12 mar 2020 alle 14:39, Jonas Hahnfeld <
> address@hidden
> > 
> ha scritto:
> > The usage of plain archives has the advantage that the user can 
> > install
> > and move the files anywhere, without invoking any installer. That is 
> > by
> > design, but maybe there's a valid use case for installers that I'm
> > missing? Uninstalling is just as easy as deleting the files (the
> > scripts from GUB don't do more than that anyhow).
> 
> If you use lilypond with Frescobaldi only, this approach is fine.
> 
> But if you want to use it in a terminal, then you have to make some 
> adjustments: adding the path to PATH for each version installed,... 

AFAICT that's not done anymore since 2012: 
https://github.com/gperciva/gub/commit/917dab12e7a838f1f153e7c57fb921c0b19b9bc2
So the only thing the installer really does (besides extracting the
files) is the setup of the .ly extension. Am I missing something else?

Jonas

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