Re: Improving the Contributors Guide and LilyDev

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Federico Bruni" <address@hidden>
To: "Paul Morris" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond Development Team" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Improving the Contributors Guide and LilyDev


> 2015-05-04 18:32 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni <address@hidden>:
>
> > As Debian Jessie was released few days ago, I was thinking about a new
> > LilyDev.
> > I think I'll first upgrade to a more recent version of live-build and 
> > then
> > add the modifications you are suggesting.
>
> I have a question: does anybody use LilyDev as live os (i.e. without
> installing)? Or most of you installs the system in a virtual machine?
> I'm asking this because I'd prefer not downloading the git repositories
> during the build of ISO images, in order to reduce the size and the build
> time of the ISO (for my updates and tests).
>
> So I'd rather put a script to download the repository when the user logs 
> in
> for the first time.
> What do you think?


Years ago I started by (accidentally) using it as a live OS.  It's a useless 
way of trying to use it.  I wouldn't bother to try to support it.

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Phil Holmes