The real difference between Finale and Lillypond is that people have
spent a lot more time fixing bugs on Finale since they've been paid
to do it. Most free software programming is done on a volunteer basis.
That said, every little contribution helps. If you are not a C or
Tcl hacker, you can still contribute a lot. Documentation is always
needed. And a Pd patch that will reliably trigger a bug is 90% of
the work for fixing that bug.
.hc
On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
Unfortunately, professional musicians who aren't programmers can't rely on free open source software at this point. I tried, though I was leery about Lilypond, I gave it a chance and got pretty interested in it. Then for whatever reason it began arbitrarily leaving out ties. Whatever drawbacks Windows and Mac have, I've never had that happen in Finale or Sibelius. The Lilypond group didn't care and didn't appreciate me mentioning it. I was really gung-ho about OSS, but if I need something by tomorrow I need it by tomorrow. I also had problems with Rosegarden et al. No open-source programmer wants to spend weeks or months making infinitesimal changes to an interface to shave seconds off some shmoe's production time, for free. And that shmoe (me, for instance) is likely to rely on a system that has software designed to shave seconds off his production time. I suspect this is changing.
On 9/13/06, Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip@gmail.com wrote:
Probably because once people learn to program and if they don't work for a commercial software firm, they'd rather leverage (and extend) their knowledge with the open codebase that GNU/Lnix provides instead of tinkering on Windows.
Kind of a Catch-22, eh?
On 9/13/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Even better, how about fixing this problem in the Pd-extended
installer?
There are a lot of really trivial bugs in the Windows distro
that would be
easy to fix and make life much better for Windows users. Its
just that no
one seems to want to work on Windows.
.hc
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