Christof Biebricher skryf: > > More of a problem are the executables. I suggest that one offers > binaries for windows and linux-i*86; for all other systems one > has to add the program sources for compiling, if possible, as C programs. > After we agree about the new package, it would be possible to replace > the complicated and then obsolete installation instructions and clean > up the now rather complex software catalogue. > I recently switched to Ubuntu Linux, a Debian variant. MusiXteX, musixlyr, PMX and M-Tx are available packages and to install them was simple. If you say "aptitude -r install m-tx", everything is installed in one go. If you have only one functional finger, you can even do it by selectng menu items from a GUI.
Other Linux distributions offer similar features of installing recommended packages, although as far as I know, Debian is the only one that has our packages as part of the official release. What is my point? Basically, that any user sophisticated enough to get useful results from a generic linux-i*86 would not need the combined package, and that easy solutions for some distros are already available. Megalithic packages offering everything are a bit out of fashion in the Linux world. Maybe it makes sense in the Windows world - I would not know. Dirk _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
