On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:46:15PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote: > Hi Graham, > Graham Percival wrote: >> If anybody doesn't like it (and doesn't know/feel like fixing it), >> just revert that commit. > > Reverting commits is not good for the moral.
Yeah, but I specifically made it an option. > It's best not to break compilation on master though, so I > suggest you create a branch dev/gpercival if you like. Oh, it's not going to be a common occurence! I just thought it was worth it to keep things moving in the right direction. We really should have gotten the CG added and producing pdfs before launching the Frogs; that would have cut down on a fair amount of duplication and question-answering. >> - large sections are completely unformatted. Or rather, they're >> formatted for text files rather than texinfo. I'll fix that one >> of these days. > > I'll insert and format contents from Documentation/TRANSLATION and > lilypond.org README. Thanks! I already ripped off approximately the first half of web/README since it had the best git instructions. >> Most of all -- and the reason I added this with all its current >> problems -- I want us to start dumping info here, rather than >> split between old website info, public emails, wiki, private >> emails, etc. > > Git detailed commit messages are (or should be) one of the most valuable > sources of code documentation, e.g. the best way to start documenting > makefiles infrastructure is reading the output from > > find -name GNUmakefile |xargs git log GNUmakefile.in make stepmake > > (use -p git flag to read comments in the diffs). Good point; that's exactly the kind of tip that should go somewhere in the CG. I can't think of where at the moment; could you shove it somewhere so it doesn't get lost? >> 3. If you want to earn my undying gratitude and love, log in to >> kainhofer (if you can) and get GUB working on that. > > If manage to build correct binaries on my machine, I'll leave getting GUB > working on kainhofer to somebody else: getting GUB to build on a variety > of machines is cool, but not necessary; getting GUB to build on at least > one machine by is necessary, though. Sounds good. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
