Re: GOP-PROP 11: git repositories

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 06:25:34PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden 
> > 
> > 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".

Honest answer?  Because I want to use the standard build methods,
but I'm not going to change my directory structure.  Sure, there
might be other people like me who would be spectactularly
unimpressed with a project that insisted on hard-coding their
directory paths and we don't want to turn away people like that,
but really the biggest reason is my own convenience.

On that note, I wonder if it would be worth standardizing
everything on LILYPOND_GIT instead of $HOME/lilypond-git.  There
would be no change to lilydev people, since we'd set that up for
them, so it's just a matter of changing all the scripts+docs
appropriately.  Then I wouldn't need the weird symlink on the
webserver and more experienced developers can put their lilypond
git repo wherever they want.

Cheers,
- Graham