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Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:43:33 +0200 (CEST)

>> Seems to me like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, though. In
>> order to build lilypond I need to read INSTALL.txt, but in order to
>> read INSTALL.txt, I need to build lilypond first...  I ended up
>> googling for the file on the website and following the steps from
>> there instead.
>
> What about a README.txt file that says, "Run configure"?

I think the normal way is to have a `README.git` file that contains
the necessary first steps to build from the repository, and people
should then continue with reading `README.txt` after it has been
created.


    Werner



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