Lily Wins on Windows
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Until now, installing LilyPond on Windows was almost (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-music/2001-April/000620.html) a dull process that could easily be automated (ftp://appel.lilypond.org/pub/gnu-windows/cygwin-1.1.7/bin/tar/lily-install-0.6-i686-cygwin.bin.tar.gz) and scripted.

That kind of scary automating is no longer necessary!  With the upcoming LilyPond-1.4 (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-gnu-music/2001-April/000060.html) release, we have innovated agressively, by copying and mutilating (http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/cygwin-installer.patch) Cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin)'s Windows installer (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe).

We proudly present our Gourmet install de luxe: we offer at least 27 totally unnecessary clicks (babysit.html), before you can actually run LilyPond.  This includes a nice and warm welcome click:

     GNU LilyPond Setup

        Version x.y
        (C) Red Hat and us

            [N]ext->

and of course, the maybe even more hollow message that tells us there's nothing to be told, really:

     GNU LilyPond Setup

        Installation completed.

            [O]k

Yes, that's right.  Farewell nightly upgrades.  Even a click at the very end is required, so that you actually feel very useful babysitting the whole process.  How about that, eh?

No, it's no longer needed to download (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget) tarballs (http://appel.lilypond.org/gnu-windows/tar/lilypond/lilypond-1.3.147-1.tar.gz) or move all sorts of files (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile) around (http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org/msg04380.html) after automagically unpacking (http://www.winzip.com) and flattening (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnu-music-discuss/2000-October/000517.html) the LilyPond (http://www.lilypond.org) tarball.

No difficult checksums (http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/tar/lilypond/md5.sum) or signatures.  Enjoy and feel the thrill when running untrusted binaries (http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/setup.exe) with adminstrator rights, on your painfully firewalled intranet.