Re: What's the deal with the module system?

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:08:28PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> I am talking about "make test" here.  I think that catching this error
> and producing "
> Texi2HTML call failed, maybe because of a mismatch in required
> versions.  If you don't need HTML, try the makefile target doc-stage-1
> if make doc failed for you, and try test-nodoc if make test failed for
> you" will save unsuspecting users hours each and will cost one developer
> half an hour to implement.

Well, we've had this issue for a while:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=775
(the actual item was only added in June, but it's bugged me for
years)

> You don't even need to trap this error in high language, but can just do
> this as part of bailing out for non-zero exit codes in the Makefile.

Patches most definitely accepted.  I don't know how to check exit
codes in makefiles.


In general, it might be interesting to look at all
"type-maintainability" issues.  Almost all of them hinder lilypond
development, but few people want to work on fixing them.
Complaining about these issues will not be helpful.

Cheers,
- Graham