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writing a 'development with gub' howto
From: |
Erik Sandberg |
Subject: |
writing a 'development with gub' howto |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:24:05 +0100 |
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Hi,
I've decided to write a howto for setting up GUB for developing lily, mostly
because I need to learn how to work efficiently with GUB (too much of my dev
time is wasted because I use gub in the wrong way). I will put the howto on
the lilypond wiki; an initial stub is available at:
http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Development_with_GUB
The target audience is people who (like me) are not very familiar with git or
gub, and want to hack lily.
I think there will be a few steps in the howto:
0. set up GUB initially (I don't have to write anything, the gub README is
sufficient)
1. create an alternative git branch master-foo, for developing a new feature.
2. set up gub to generate an additional binary lilypond-foo in addition to the
normal lilypond binary. lilypond-foo is built from the lilypond-foo branch,
and uses the --enable-debugging and --disable-optimisation parameters
to ./configure.
3. everyday development process: modify source, make; test, debug; commit
locally; make download, git-rebase.
4. how to submit changes: git-diff / git-push
The main reason why I want to write this, is that I don't know how to do
everything properly (in particular I don't know how to do point 2). Whenever
there's something I don't know, I will start with an (unqualified) guess, so
the information on the howto may be misleading at first. Any help is
appreciated.
--
Erik
- writing a 'development with gub' howto,
Erik Sandberg <=