Re: contributing instructions are misleading!

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: contributing instructions are misleading!


> That's a point I'd like to say something about.
> The CG's insistence on Lilydev can be somewhat offputting. I didn't think 
> I'd need Lilydev and wasn't keen on installing a virtual machine only to 
> run a (presumably outdated) Ubuntu inside an up-to-date Linux.

I don't understand this at all.  VMs are superb ways of running any number 
of different environments on the same desktop, at no risk whatever.  FWIW 
all the current lilypond "release" builds are done on a VM, since GUB won't 
run on my 64 bit environment.  Why the antipathy to VMs?

> But you're led to believe that LilyDev is the canonical environment for 
> working on LilyPond, and if you dare to go another route you'll be on your 
> own and heading for trouble.

Well - since you're the only one running your specific environment, that's 
generally true.  With a VM that many of us run, it's not.

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Phil Holmes