Re: Frogs: oldaddlyrics in music-functions-init.ly

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl, you wrote Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:07 PM

> On 1/7/09 2:37 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Carl D. Sorensen wrote Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:37 AM
> >
> > > On 1/6/09 9:32 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 2009/1/6 Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden>:
> > > >
> > > > > Then you create a symbolic link in the main binary lilypond directory 
> > > > > to
> > > > > the
> > > > > ly/, scm/ and input/ directories from your git repository.  Now,
> > > > > although
> > > > > the directories are actually in your git repository, they appear to 
> > > > > the
> > > > > binary to be in the binary directory.  And everything works just as if
> > > > > you
> > > > > had built it from your git repository.
> > > >
> > > > Hm. Does Windows have symlinks now?
> > cygwin does, which is where I used them.
> > > According to Wikipedia, Vista supports sym links, and XP supports
> > > junctions,
> > > which only work with directories, but that's what we need to do for this
> > > bit
> > > of magic.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link
> >
> > It's not quite that easy. You have to have the Create
> > Symbolic Link privilege to use mklink to create a
> > symbolic link.  This is only available by default to
> > "elevated" admistrators.  To obtain that privilege
> > you have to use the Local Security Policy management
> > console, which is not distributed with Vista Home.
> > There is a utility, ntrights.exe, in the Windows
> > Server 2003 Resource Kit, apparently, which can also
> > be used to do this, but this is not distributed with
> > Vista Home either.  I gave up at that point, as there
> > is an easier way:
> >
> > Simply rename (for example) the scm directory in
> > Program Files and copy in the scm directory with
> > contents from the git repository.  You need basic
> > administrator privileges to do this, but this is
> > easy to obtain.  Be sure to use the copy mechanism
> > in Windows Explorer to do this.  If you use Save as
> > from an editor the copy may be placed in the
> > Program Files VirtualStore, which will work but will
> > give you problems later.
>
> The problem with this method is that every time you make a change
> in the git repo, you have to copy the scm/ directory to Program
> files.  The reason for wanting the symbolic link is so the files that
> git works on are exactly the same files that lilypond reads from.

I usually make the changes to the copy in Program files
and copy back to git when I reach a natural break point.
Not ideal, but it's no big deal.

> I don't have a Vista machine, so I can't explore possible solutions.

> Could you try Juntion Link Magic?  It's freeware that is supposed to allow
> you to create junctions in any version of Windows.

No, I'm wary of installing third party mods which mess
with the basic system, especially when there is an
acceptable alternative.  They can sometimes go wrong.

Trevor