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LilyPond for Windows.
Lily Wins on Windows
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Until now, installing LilyPond on Windows was almost a dull process that could easily be automated and scripted. This meant that you would have more time left for actual work, and we all know that's not what computers were designed for.
Well, that kind of scary automating is no longer necessary! Also, it's no longer needed to download tarballs or move all sorts of files around. Sometimes, the automagical breaking while unpacking process would even install flawlessly, and you had to break it yourself by flattening the LilyPond tarball.
Our specially formed Windows support task force has, after thoroughly investigating your particular needs as an individual user, formuled the revolutionary new concept of one-size-fits-all software, and delivered way before schedule.
With the upcoming LilyPond-1.4 release, we have innovated agressively, by copying and mutilating Cygwin's Windows installer. No difficult checksums or signatures. Enjoy the the thrills of running untrusted binaries with adminstrator rights, on your painfully firewalled intranet.
We proudly present our Gourmet-click-de-luxe install: offering at
least 32 totally unnecessary clicks, before you can
actually run LilyPond. This includes a nice and warm welcome click:
GNU LilyPond Setup
Version x.y
(C) Red Hat and us
[N]ext->
and of course, especially for all people with an exceptionally fine
developed Windows taste, the maybe even more hollow message that tells
us there's nothing to be told, really:
GNU LilyPond Setup
Installation completed.
[O]k
Yes, that's right. Farewell smooth nightly upgrades. Even a click at the very end is required, so
that you actually feel very useful babysitting the whole process. Try
it. You will agree that with this new innovative installer we have
truly reached the holy grail of user friendliness.
Please send GNU LilyPond questions and comments to lilypond-user@gnu.org.
Please send comments on these web pages to lilypond@packages.debian.org
Copyright (c) 1997--2001 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
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