On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:13 PM, James Lowe <james.l...@datacore.com> wrote: > From my own personal perspective (assuming I have the Lilybuntu installed).
Heh, perfect example of the "well-intentioned but misleading" advice that this mailing list is famous for! :) > 1. Download lilygit.tcl - change permissions so I can execute it. > > 2. Double click it and then select 'get source' if you type: wish lilygit.tcl then you don't need to screw with permissions. Granted, that requires a terminal instead of control-click (change permissions), double-click... but you need the terminal later anyway. Double-granted, your solution will still work; it's not like this would screw up the build. > 5. Wait for a while. I have docs. As long as nobody messed up git just before you downloaded it. We're pretty good about this now, but I remember one poor contributor (a few months ago, or maybe a whole year) who tried to start twice, and both times he happened to jump in while git master didn't compile. :) > 2. cd Documentation dir > > 3. touch [manual_name].itexi/itely I have edited the relevant itexi file > for. It might be easier to do touch Documentation/[manual_name].itexi/itely but I'd recommend doing touch Documentation/*.te?? instead. (for the record, this point is in the CG and is completely cut&pasteable) in a larger, "our development is mao'd up" sense, this step shouldn't exist at all -- the build system should notice if a file has been modified, and compile it (or not) accordingly. > While step 8 I am told is a 'bug' in our build process, It's definitely a "bug" in your email, since you restarted numbering from 1 after point 5, making this "the second step 3" instead of "step 8". :P I'm not being completely silly when I nitpick like this -- checking all these details is part of the difference between "ok documentation" and "great documentation". CG 1-3 is currently "ok" (the rest is "poor"); I'm not going to start GOP until I'm satisfied that the relevant parts of the CG are "great". Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
