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

[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.

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
6)  Go back to step 1, repeat.

I take care of getting the right version of the source file to them, 
making the diffs, making sure their edited (UNTESTED) files still 
compile, committing to git, and uploading.

BTW, I have experience working on the docs like this myself -- except 
that in my case, I had a two-week turnaround (ie waiting until the next 
devel version was released), instead of a one-day turnaround.


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.

Cheers,
- Graham