[forgot to CC to list] --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Mandereau <john.mander...@gmail.com> Date: 2009/3/16 Subject: Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images? To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-l...@xs4all.nl>
Hi Jan, 2009/3/16 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-l...@xs4all.nl>: > Your point about README/INSTALL is more difficult to tackle. While > I agree it would be nice to have those file available at toplevel-- > just as they are in the distributed tarballs--it is a pain (not to > say stupid) to have generated files in GIT. It should be simple to trigger "make do-top-doc" and link generated INSTALL and README to the root at the end of autogen.sh; having these generated files is not a pain if we add them in .gitignore. I'll get a look as soon as I can bring my laptop to work... > The problems with fixing a build system is that it is a major time sink > without any obvious benefits, very hard to get right (for a big project > like lilypond) and with a number of conflicting constraints (speed vs > correctness, etc.) and it's a very personal thing, everyone wants > something else, wants to use the build system they already know > very well (from work or wherever), doesn't care so much about speed, > or correctness, or cross-building or using yet another undocumented > language or out of tree builds or building in other ide's or... Unless > maybe you use the full standard autotools suite, which *everyone* hates > to work with. >From the little experience I got by hacking LilyPond parts of the build system dedicated to documentation and looking a little in autoconf stuff, I just fully second this. Best, John _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
