Keith OHara <[email protected]> writes: > Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes: > >> I completed a full GUB build of lilypond yesterday > > That's very good news. > I was beginning to worry.
Well, it's been 5 months. It's clear that our current maintainership of GUB is not working out. Basically the model is "Phil is running it, so let him keep it running". Now it's a great testament to GUB's qualities that after initial setup it kept churning out releases for years without anybody knowing all too much what they were doing. It's great that Masamichi Hosoda turned up and made the necessary changes to GUB and then helped Phil along, but we need to get GUB a bit more unstuck than it currently is. I'll be moving its development to Savannah soonish and will try getting it some traction as a general GNU endeavor: after all, most projects delivering Windows executables go through a lot more pain than we do: the Windows ports of Git, Mingw, and a number of others are multi-person efforts usually trailing significantly behind the "native" compilations, and they require a lot more know-how and work to produce than ours as long as GUB is in working state. And the GUB problems we were having just now were not at all LilyPond related: with a generally maintained GUB, all of the required work (namely updating g++) would likely have been done by someone else by the time we needed it. > Thanks for taking the time to work through the problems. A lot of those thanks belong to Masamichi Hosoda. For me, Phil's most admirable accomplishment is not setting fire to the pile basically dropped at his feet but sticking around until help arrived for untangling it. Stuff like that is quite mentally draining and unthankful. I was elated about the improving news, and I also was elated that when I finally saw that the upload had succeeded, I noticed at the same time already about a dozen issues getting verified as fixed and closed. We are still operative! -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
