Re: GUB buiding from a local source tree?

[Boris Shingarov]

Quoting Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

> I'm completely serious.  My GUB tree is *filled* with ugly hacks like
> this.  It would be nice if they weren't needed, but it'll probably
> take 20-50 more hours of work until this is the case. 

Oh, I completely understand this.  And this is the exact reason why I 
am asking questions, because when the code is this rough, there are 
things that are better to just ask, rather than to try to figure out 
"why" -- because we are not dealing with something finished but a 
thought-in-progress. 

> If you're frustrated already, then I honestly think you
> should give up now, because it will only get worse from now on

I completely realize what kind of complexity we are talking about.  And 
no, I am not at all frustrated.  Not from a technical viewpoint anyway. 
 But for me the whole thing about GUB is driven by the organizational 
side: as a developer, I am completely happy with the Linux development 
platform, and am much more interested in furthering Lilypond rather 
than trying to deploy it on a platform I don't even use.  But then 
there is the end-users who want to see it on Windows, but then again 
they want to see progress in Lilypond development, and the prospect of 
losing weeks to porting to Windows, makes them want to reconsider their 
platform preferences.  We'll see.  As I already said, at this point 
it's about organizational questions, not technical ones. 

Boris Shingarov
Work on Lilypond under grant from Sonus Paradisi / Jiri Zurek (Prague),
Czech Science Foundation, Project No. 401/09/0419