Re: development on windows

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Saturday, June 06, 2009 11:18 AM


> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Graham Percival wrote Friday, June 05, 2009 11:19 AM
> >
> > > There's a surprising amount of interest in contributing to
> > > LilyPond from Windows machines.  (err, I mean, from people 
> > > *with*
> > > Windows machines, not from the actual machines themselves)
> > >
> > > As I understand it, people with Windows can:
> > > - run GUB
> >
> > I haven't tried - I didn't realise this was possible.
> > Has anyone done it?
>
> Err... by "run GUB", I mean "generate sheet music using the
> downloaded .exe".

Aah, right.  You mean run the generated binary, not
run the builder.  I thought I must have misunderstood
something.

> Even if somebody can't do anything else, with
> this they can still contribute a great deal -- creating examples,
> sorting/extending LSR stuff, etc.

Indeed.

> Frankly, in some ways I wish that we had *more* contributors who
> could only run GUB.  There's a lot of tasks that I consider "too
> simple" for the git-savvy people to do, so as a result they tend
> to remain undone.  :|
>
> > > - compile the docs without examples by running texi2html 
> > > manually
> >
> > Tick, but this is often screwed up if the version
> > number in snippets is bumped by an LSR update, since
> > this means they can no longer be compiled with the
> > latest released version.
> >
> > > - compile the docs with GUB
> >
> > Must try this ...
>
> Err, if the version number in snippet matters, then you *have*
> been compiling with GUB.  In the "compile docs without examples",
> I meant something like

Yes, now I understand what you mean by GUB.  The
problem is that a too-high version number gives
only a warning in LilyPond, but causes lilypond-book
to terminate.  There are ways round it, but they
can be very messy.  That's one of the reasons I've
done virtually nothing on the docs for some months,
as I have been unable to compile them to check my
work.  Now 2.13.1-2 has been released I can probably
get back to knocking off some of the outstanding
doc TODOs.

Trevor