Re: contributing instructions are misleading!

[Urs Liska]

Am 01.01.2014 18:02, schrieb Phil Holmes:
> ----- Original Message ----- 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 only to run a (presumably outdated) Ubuntu inside an up-to-date Linux.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?

It's not an antipathy against VMs, but it's irritating that you're led 
to believe you have to download LilyDev while actually you just can add 
a few things to your existing setup and continue to work in your daily 
environment.

> > 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.

Is that true? Most Lilypond devs work in a VM?

Urs