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From: | lilypond |
Subject: | Re: Issue 1933 in lilypond: Lilypond-book requires msvcrt again |
Date: | Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:08:13 +0000 |
Comment #32 on issue 1933 by address@hidden: Lilypond-book requires msvcrt again
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1933 I completely agree with what you're saying in post 30I wasn't clear in my previous post: when I said "we are maintaining a feature for which we have no current developer who is an expert", it was in light of the "I'm having trouble imaging that the worth of a packaged Python is greater than or equal to the worth of spending developer resources on understanding it and fixing it every time something goes wrong," I didn't mean to imply that the absence of an expert should be a sole criteria upon which the maintenance of something is based, but rather that it should be part of a calculation that allows us to evaluate the utility of that feature.
So, in summary:Having binary releases is very important, and the lack of an expert in that domain should not be cause for our deciding to scrap that goal (this is what Han-Wen said in a recent e-mail).
Packaging Python with LilyPond when Python is downloadable from a website seems less important and thus the lack of developer resources may weigh out the utility of including it.
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