Re: automated computing tasks for lilypond

[John Mandereau]

Il giorno mer, 29/08/2012 alle 14.28 +0100, James ha scritto:
> They did reduce significantly since Phil and I were able to run tests
> quickly. I often would run tests myself after the normal patchy tests
> simply because I knew a change was significant (like Mike's skyline
> for instance or Phils reduces black bars and even David's lexer/parser
> change and I did capture a couple of 'passes tests but fails make doc'
> problems. So by the time they get in to staging the creases were
> ironed out.

I fully agree that running the doc build has been worthwhile for some
patches, and will likely continue to be so.


> also does a normal 'make' always capture fat-finger texinfo typos? It
> catches all mine, but I cannot be sure it would in every case.

Indeed, no; some errors in Texinfo input are ignored or handled
gracefully by makeinfo/texi2html (in particular they ignore any TeX
code), whereas TeX may barf on them.

Best
J