Re: lilypond.org has wrong HTML files for 2.19.84 (was: How do I change LOCALEDIR?)

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 1:15 PM Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> > From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:35:00 -0500
> >
> >> The search algorithm is actually documented in `usage.pdf`,
> >
> > I’ve never seen that file.  Where would I find it?
>
> Ouch.  It should be at
>
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage-big-page.html#relocation
>
> but it's missing!  The same for
>
>   http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage.pdf
>
> which misses the whole section on relocation.
>
> This means that the HTML files on lilypond.org are not reflecting
> 2.19.84 — I've added the documentation for relocation with commit
> 7200d7365be more than a year ago...
>
> This is a serious problem IMHO.
>

Yikes.  That would explain why I hadn't seen it. :P


>
> > OMG this is documented?  I wish I’d known all this weeks ago when I
> > was writing the Mac Makefile!
>
> Sorry for that.  I only use my self-compiled PDF files and didn't
> notice that it's missing on the web page.
>
> > Sure, and I’d obviously *rather* that we have the localized strings
> > as early as possible.  But to me, the most obvious way of doing that
> > *correctly* would be to determine the *actual* locale path as early
> > as possible, and to call bindtextdomain (once) as soon as possible
> > after that.  After all, if LOCALEDIR has been changed, then it’s
> > very likely that the early call to bindtextdomain (with the obsolete
> > path) won’t *actually* load any usable strings, so what’s the point
> > of having it?
>
> Again: Patches are highly welcomed :-)
>

Understood, and perhaps I'll come up with something.  (I can probably at
least write C++ on the level required for relocate.cc...)  Or perhaps it
will turn out that there really isn't a better way than what you already
did, at least without doing more redesign than I care to right now.


>
>
>     Werner
>

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
address@hidden
http://www.marnen.org