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From: | Phil Holmes |
Subject: | Re: Compile for Mac |
Date: | Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:03:35 -0000 |
To: <address@hidden> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:35 PM Subject: Re: Compile for Mac
On 11-03-12 08:09 AM, Graham Percival wrote:For the sake of clarity: are we saying that new contributors who run linux natively, as I do at home, or in a VM, as I do in the office, should also be encouraged to run lilydev? That seems a bit cumbersome, and if the push to lilydev is intended only (or mainly) for non-linux using contribs, I'll put together a tweak to the CG to make that plain.On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:47:59PM +0000, James Lowe wrote:If this works for me then I think it would be really helpful to have in the CG simply because if I can do it, then anyone who had a modicum of building code experience can do it and won't have to hunt about the message boards.Ok, but don't add it to "quick start", or do anything to encourage new contributors to use this. New contributors should use lilydev; trying to walk people through macports and the rest is just begging for trouble. Cheers, - GrahamColin
My understanding is that lilydev is for people like me - longtime windows/mac users who have never touched *nix before but need to be able to compile using the native environment they're familiar with.
-- Phil Holmes
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