Graham Percival wrote Friday, June 05, 2009 11:19 AM
There's a surprising amount of interest in contributing to LilyPond from Windows machines. (err, I mean, from people *with* Windows machines, not from the actual machines themselves) As I understand it, people with Windows can: - run GUB
I haven't tried - I didn't realise this was possible. Has anyone done it?
- get the sources with git
Tick
- compile the docs without examples by running texi2html manually
Tick, but this is often screwed up if the version number in snippets is bumped by an LSR update, since this means they can no longer be compiled with the latest released version.
- compile the docs with GUB
Must try this ...
- write docstrings, fix bugs, and add new features to .scm files
Tick
However, they cannot: - compile lilypond
Correct
- write bugfixes, new features, and "code janitor" C++ files
Is the above correct? If so, is there any hope of changing the cannot-compile status? In particular, - does anybody feel like making cygwin packages for the missing software? - does anybody have VMware (commercial version) and feel like making a small Linux installation which has all the required software? Potential contributors would be able to run this in the free VMware version. - does anybody feel like making shell accounts available for windows users? (I'm not at all certain how many windows contributors would feel comfortable using such a system, but I include it here for correctness)
I can't commit to helping with this in the foreseeable future, I'm afraid.
I suspect that the answer to the above questions is "no", so I'll write the CG / new website to make this clear. But it's worth checking first. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
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