2015-05-06 11:55 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org>: > As a side note: What would be the amount of work to provide a lily-dev > metapackage that could be used by people who are already using a Linux > distribution? As a Linux user I would prefer modifying my own system over > using a precompiled LilyDev distro in a VM. I recall that setting up my > systems on different machines (several different Debian based distros, > including my "virtual private" web server) was actually quite simple. The > only real issue I had (and still have) is through the fact that I have a > manual TeXLive installation that doesn't really go well with LilyPond > trying to access the packaged version. > I think this is more or less a case of installing a number of packages > through apt, cloning a number of repositories and adding a number of paths > to .bashrc. > > Setting up a linux machine to contribute to lilypond is very easy. AFAIK LilyDev was always meant mainly for Windows and Mac users. A Linux user can easily follow the CG and set up his system.
> I will soon have the opportunity to test that on a computer that I'll > install from scratch. That way I can at least write step-by-step directions > to get a Debian computer to work with LilyPond development. > This is already covered in the CG, even though splitted in several chapters. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
