Re: development on windows

[Trevor Daniels]

Patrick McCarty wrote Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:43 AM


> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Graham 
> Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 01:23:22AM +0200, John Mandereau wrote:
> > > Francisco Vila a écrit :
> > > > 2009/6/6 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > > >
> > > > > Err... by "run GUB", I mean "generate sheet music using the
> > > > > downloaded .exe".
> > > >
> > > > GUB is the builder, and it builds the released binaries. You 
> > > > run the
> > > > builder or the released binary. I propose to call things by 
> > > > their
> > > > names.
> > > Agreed. We should call binaries by Lily dev team "GUB binaries" 
> > > or
> > > whatever you like that sounds correct, but not just
> > > GUB, which is the building framework.
> >
> > Err... "GUB" stands for "Grand Unified Binary". It was a play on
> > the GUT (Grand Unified Theory) of physics.
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=GUB&submit=Search!&idxname=lilypond- 
> > devel&max=10&result=normal&sort=date%3Aearly
>
> Interesting.  So did the name evolve over time?  Now it appears to 
> be
> called the Grand Unified Builder:
>
> http://lilypond.org/gub/

Which makes a lot more sense, since the binaries it produces are
certainly not unified, only the source and the building mechanism 
are.

Trevor