On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 22:37 -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On 3/31/22 15:34, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 19:22 -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > > > In addition to the binary download now being a plain tarball, I note > > > that the directory structure within lilypond-2.23.7-documentation.tar.xz > > > is significantly different from what it was in previous revisions: > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Was this also deliberate? > > > > No, that was just me not carefully checking what GUB did for the > > documentation tarball and nobody complaining for the 2.23.6 release. I > > guess GUB did a "make install-doc" to also include the info and man > > pages? What we package right now are the HTML pages and PDFs, what you > > used to find in share/doc/. > > > > But since you are apparently a user of the tarball, may I ask which > > formats you look at? Would you potentially benefit from splitting the > > PDFs and having a smaller archive? > > 2.23.6 had the same directory tree as all others, which is why nobody > complained then.
Yes, the one on lilypond.org built by GUB had. The one built with Guile 2.2 announced on the mailing list was the same as 2.23.7 - but anyway. > I’ve only ever used the documentation tarball for Frescobaldi to point > to. Ok, I didn't know that feature. It actually works with the new structure as well, but it will be fixed with this merge request: https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1284 > (And since it’s increasingly rare for me to be using Lilypond in > places where I don’t have ’net access, I’m using that much less than I > used to.) So yes, a split archive of only HTML files would be useful. Thanks for the input, I've added the information to https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/946 Jonas
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