On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:57:03PM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote: > Graham, list, > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Graham Percival > <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > > Are you? The best way to get this started is to join the Frogs, > > our team of bugfixers. After fixing a few bugs, you'll be able to > > start extending lilypond in the direction(s) you desire. > > Question: Can anyone help me setup a Q virtual machine that can build > Lilypond from source?
This is a popular question. A few months ago there was a long discussion on -devel about this, but I think the person who was trying to get it set up decided to get a cheap Linux computer instead. > It seems that (parts of) Lily is in C++, which I've been using since > 1995. So, I can read and (probably) bugfix in it. I guess I'll have to > learn other languages on the way as well, including .ly (since it's > changed a lot sometimes!) I would say that scheme is more important than C++. Also note that you can do bugfixes in scheme without recompiling lilypond -- this way you wouldn't need to mess around with any virtual machines, C++ compilers, etc. > So, you can probably add me to the list of Frogs. Is there a 'central > place' for new people to 'gather and discuss'? Yes, there's a Frog mailist, but I can't remember the address offhand. If Valentin had his website up, I could find the address there. Carl Sorensen is the FrogMeister, so when you have a patch, I suggest sending it to him for comments first. You should also read the Contributor's Guide: http://www.kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/devel/contrib-guide/index.html Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
