RE: GOP-PROP 11: git repositories

[Phil Holmes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 06 September 2011 18:20
> To: Phil Holmes
> Cc: 'Trevor Daniels'; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: GOP-PROP 11: git repositories
> 
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > > The only kind of person who's interested in those other 
> repositories 
> > > will have their own favorite directory layout anyway 
> (like me; all 
> > > my source repositories go under
> > > $HOME/src/) so they'd ignore any recommendation anyway.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better to standardise them so that the doc 
> and website 
> > builds can copy them using standard scripts?
> 
> hmm, good point.
> 
> What about just using environment variables, $LILYPOND_GIT 
> and $LILYPOND_MEDIA_GIT, then telling the user to set up 
> these variables by themselves?  (potentially after googling 
> for help) That feels like a more "unix-y" solution to me.  :)

Surely it's better to put them in My Documents\lily\media, etc.  :-)

I'm reasonably easy, providing there's some standard way of accessing the
files.  It just seems to me that if you're going to say "you must set up a
variable called LILYPOND_GIT pointing to your repository" you might as well
say "To use standard build methods, you must put the repositories in these
directories".

--
Phil