Re: Requirements for Running LilyPond

[Federico Bruni]

Hi James

Il giorno sab 11 mar 2017 alle 17:56, James <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> This subsection has always puzzled me a bit.
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor-big-page#requirements-for-running-lilypond
>
> If I were a user on Windows or MacOS I know I don't need any of this 
> software to 'run' LilyPond because, I assume, we provide everything 
> in the standalone binaries we compile for these operating systems.

The CG is not for regular users...

> I had initially thought this section should be moved to 'Usage' under 
> the 'Running LilyPond' section but after reasoning as I have above it 
> evidently is not appropriate there.
>
> So is this section just for Linux (and maybe FreeBSD) users?
>
> Or is this section just for users that are building from source AND 
> want to run LilyPond at the same time?
>
> In which case what do I get when I am on Linux and download one of 
> the *.sh files that I then run to 'install' LilyPond?
>
> Thanks for your time.

I _think_ that this section is mainly for packagers, who need to know 
what is needed to run or to compile LilyPond in order to create the 
list of dependencies for each use case.