Re: contributing instructions are misleading!

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Charles Malahieude" <address@hidden>
To: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>; "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; 
<address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: contributing instructions are misleading!


> Le 01/01/2014 18:07, Urs Liska disait :
> > Am 01.01.2014 18:02, schrieb Phil Holmes:
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > > 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?
>
> I compile on native Fedora. I don't know by how would be multiplied a 90 
> minutes "make -j3 && make -j3 doc" on my dual-core with 2gigs RAM when 
> launched in a VM.
>
> Happy new year,
> Jean-Charles


I can "make doc" in a VM in under 15 minutes.  It depends on the 
architecture of the native CPU.

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Phil Holmes