On Thursday, 27 July 2000, Thomas Willhalm writes:
> The directory is filled up with *.ly, *.midi and *.tex files. This
> - is a waste of disc space and
Generate all stuff into an ./out directory, like the LilyPond build
process does. `rm out/*' (or `make clean') removes all the cruft.
> - makes it hard to find the midi file of the music that you just changed.
What's so hard about `ls -ltr'?
> Don't get me wrong: I'm very happy that only the music that changed has
> to be processed -- particularly because my computer isn't up to date.
> But a unique (descriptive) file name would be nice, too.
Ok, that's a feature request, the `(descriptive)', that is. Note that
mudela-book is a mess and is a candidate for a rewrite.
> Perhaps we should look for another mechanism that fulfills both tasks, e.g.
> 1. write the .ly only if its content would change
Ok.
> 2. generate the .midi and .tex file only if they are older than the .ly file
> (I know that this is harder to implement than the current version.)
That's what `make' does for you, right?
Jan.
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