Hi, I've decided to write a howto for setting up GUB for developing lily, mostly because I need to learn how to work efficiently with GUB (too much of my dev time is wasted because I use gub in the wrong way). I will put the howto on the lilypond wiki; an initial stub is available at: http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Development_with_GUB
The target audience is people who (like me) are not very familiar with git or gub, and want to hack lily. I think there will be a few steps in the howto: 0. set up GUB initially (I don't have to write anything, the gub README is sufficient) 1. create an alternative git branch master-foo, for developing a new feature. 2. set up gub to generate an additional binary lilypond-foo in addition to the normal lilypond binary. lilypond-foo is built from the lilypond-foo branch, and uses the --enable-debugging and --disable-optimisation parameters to ./configure. 3. everyday development process: modify source, make; test, debug; commit locally; make download, git-rebase. 4. how to submit changes: git-diff / git-push The main reason why I want to write this, is that I don't know how to do everything properly (in particular I don't know how to do point 2). Whenever there's something I don't know, I will start with an (unqualified) guess, so the information on the howto may be misleading at first. Any help is appreciated. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
