Re: Improving the Contributors Guide and LilyDev

[Federico Bruni]

2015-05-06 11:55 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:

> As a side note: What would be the amount of work to provide a lily-dev
> metapackage that could be used by people who are already using a Linux
> distribution? As a Linux user I would prefer modifying my own system over
> using a precompiled LilyDev distro in a VM. I recall that setting up my
> systems on different machines (several different Debian based distros,
> including my "virtual private" web server) was actually quite simple. The
> only real issue I had (and still have) is through the fact that I have a
> manual TeXLive installation that doesn't really go well with LilyPond
> trying to access the packaged version.
> I think this is more or less a case of installing a number of packages
> through apt, cloning a number of repositories and adding a number of paths
> to .bashrc.
>
>
Setting up a linux machine to contribute to lilypond is very easy.
AFAIK LilyDev was always meant mainly for Windows and Mac users. A Linux
user can easily follow the CG and set up his system.


> I will soon have the opportunity to test that on a computer that I'll
> install from scratch. That way I can at least write step-by-step directions
> to get a Debian computer to work with LilyPond development.
>

This is already covered in the CG, even though splitted in several chapters.