Re: Texinfo 4.11 required [Re: Autotester: FAIL make -f lilypond.make LILYPOND_BRANCH=master doc-build]

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Sonntag, 11. November 2007 schrieb Graham Percival:
> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> >>> Especially when we try to get more users to contribute to the
> >>> documentation.
> >>
> >> This is not a problem for GDP.  Trust me, I wrap my helpers in cotton.
> >> They don't even need to make their own diffs or find the source files
> >> themselves!
> >
> > But they can't build anything without building texinfo themselves...
>
> Ten weeks of documentation work disagrees with you.

Great to hear!

> AFAIK, _none_ of the people working on GDP can build the docs
> themselves.  (actually, Eyolf might be doing this)
>
> Here's what they do:
> 1)  Download source file from GDP website.
> 2)  Edit .tely file as a text file.
> 3)  Send file to me.
> 4)  Wait until 2am UTP.
> 5)  Look at docs on kainhofer.com

Ah, so I already did that work for them ;-)

> We just can't ask windows users to install cygwin, git, texinfo (any
> version), etc etc.  I also don't want to require that OSX or linux
> people do the whole git thing, either.  If somebody wants to fiddle with
> that, I'm happy to help them with the steps... but they'd need to spend
> a whole week getting that stuff set up, and that's not the way to
> encourage people to work on the docs.

Right, of course, if you provide that work for them, things get much easier...

Cheers,
Reinhold


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