Re: development on windows

[Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)]

As we are looking for windows-experienced developers I really think that 
the ubuntu way would be better, it is easier for us windowsers.

> If you guys think it would be useful then I'll have a go at it. I 
> think I can remaster xubuntu with all the Lilypond build tools and get 
> it under 700MB to fit on a CD. I would go with Debian but the tool 
> "remastersys" is specifically made for doing Ubuntu remixes and I'm  
> not sure it would work with straight Debian.
>
> I'm not sure if I can build it in such a way as to include the git 
> source files. Normally that's the sort of thing in an individual 
> user's /home directory and would be left out of the remix. When 
> someone installs from one of these remixes it works the same way as 
> with regular Ubuntu, they create user accounts at the time of 
> installation. I feel that if I can get it under 700 megs with all of 
> the build tools and with the git program installed, then just about 
> any user can open a terminal and copy-paste the git commands you put 
> together in the CG to grab the source code. I've copy/pasted from CG 
> several times myself and it works perfectly.
>
> Jon