Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi Jan, > >> I'm just pointing out that choosing something different will >> --currently still -- cost you. > > Absolutely... and, as we've witnessed, this is almost certainly > materially affecting the number of developers that can/will work on > Lilypond. > > Like it or not, >95% of the computer world is not on Linux — for > example, see <http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php>, which puts > Linux at ~2.2% share. Put another way, the difficulty of setting up a > development system on anything but Linux is a significant obstacle to > Lilypond's potential.
It's not as bad as the numbers suggest. The ratio of serious developers who will balk at getting their development environment up and running will not be all that large. I think that the user base is affected more than the developer base. But again: batch processing is something that tends to scare more Windows users than Linux/Unix/etc. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
