Re: Improving the Contributors Guide and LilyDev

[Janek Warchoł]

Hello,

I have an alpha version of LilyDev built with Vagrant and Ansible ready for
demonstration.

To try it, you need VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) and Vagrant (
https://www.vagrantup.com/) installed, and the LilyDev Vagrant box (which
you can download here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzv9iog9klhexgm/lilydev4.a02.box?dl=0).

Open terminal and in an empty directory run:

    vagrant init lilydev4 <path to the box file>
    vagrant up

LilyDev should setup itself completely automatically, and you should see a
login screen; the username and password is `vagrant`.  Inside, you should
be able to compile LilyPond according to the "Compiling with LilyDev"
section of the CG.

Of course, you can build the box yourself - there are instructions in
README (the repository is on GitHub:
https://github.com/janek-warchol/vagrant-powered-lilydev).  I hope that the
code is commented well and will be self-explanatory.

How do you like it?
(keep in mind that this is just a proof of concept; many things mentioned
in the discussion still have to be done.  I'm mainly interested in your
opinion about how it works in general).

best,
Janek