Re: [ANN] Frescobaldi 2.0 development progress, runs already on Windows

[Damian leGassick]

that's great

i'll try a build on mac...



On 23 May 2011, at 10:46, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> just to update interested people about the progress of Frescobaldi 2.0, and 
> let you know I managed to get it running on Windows. Testers are welcome :-) 
> The Frescobaldi 2.0 feature set is far from complete yet, but the basics are 
> in good shape.
> 
> Frescobaldi (dedicated LilyPond text editor) 2.0 is designed to run on all 
> major platforms and depends only on Python, PyQt4 and Poppler and the poppler-
> qt4 python binding. Target 2.0.0 release date is Christmas 2011.
> 
> On Linux. Frescobaldi 2.0 already works well. Use Qt4.7, PyQt4.7 or 4.8, 
> Python 2.6 or 2.7, Poppler and python-poppler-qt4 (from [1]) and git clone 
> [2]. See the README[3] for what is already functioning and how to use it.
> 
> [1] http://python-poppler-qt4.googlecode.com/
> [2] git://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi.git
> [3] https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/blob/master/README
> 
> I have not yet a Windows installer for the popplerqt4 plugin that powers the 
> PDF preview. It should be compiled from source, together with Poppler itself. 
> I did not try that yet, but Frescobaldi can run without the PDF preview.
> 
> Here is how to test Frescobaldi on Windows:
> 
> - Install Git from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
> - Install Python 2.7 from www.python.org
> - Install PyQt4 from 
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
> Note: use the same Python version (2.7 recommended)
> 
> - Of course: install LilyPond (latest dev recommended)
> 
> - Open Git Bash from the start menu
> - Enter commands:
> git clone git://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi.git
> cd frescobaldi
> /c/Python27/python frescobaldi
> 
> And voilá! You can edit LilyPond documents and run LilyPond.
> 
> To create an installer:
> /c/Python27/python setup.py bdist_wininst
> 
> Then run the installer (.exe file) from the dist/ directory.
> It will even create a Start menu entry!
> 
> Windows TODO:
> - fix RuntimeError+crash when closing the window via the close button
>  (File->Quit works well)
> - let bdist_wininst create a file association for *.ly to Frescobaldi (how?)
> - make an installer for python-poppler-qt4 to get a working PDF preview
> 
> 
> best regards,
> Wilbert Berendsen
> 
> -- 
> Frescobaldi, LilyPond editor for KDE: http://www.frescobaldi.org/
> 
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