Re: Macro for(UP_and_DOWN) and 3 similar. (issue 2491) (issue 6109046)

[Phil Holmes]

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Subject: Re: Macro for(UP_and_DOWN) and 3 similar. (issue 2491) (issue 
6109046)


> On 26 avr. 2012, at 11:43, James wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > On 26 April 2012 08:51, address@hidden <address@hidden> 
> > wrote:
> > > On 26 avr. 2012, at 09:05, James wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > On 26 April 2012 07:55, address@hidden <address@hidden> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On 26 avr. 2012, at 07:28, Graham Percival wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Well, right now we have nobody running the automated tests to
> > > > > > check that new patches are ok.  So there will be no patches
> > > > > > accepted to lilypond.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a meeting in mid-May w/ the University of Paris VIII.  They're 
> > > > > donating a computer to LilyPond and I'll set patchy up on it.
> > >
> > > One thing I'm gonna try to do on that machine is have each index.html 
> > > generated by a regtest comparison (along with the log/png/jpg/etc files) 
> > > upload to a folder on mikesolomon.org.  These can hang out indefinitely 
> > > and an automatic e-mail can be sent to the list w/ an alert that 
> > > patchset X is up for viewing on site Y.
> >
> > Still requires 'someone' to 'do' something and then say 'LGTM' and I
> > don't know what the feed back has been with regard to the
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/grand-regression-test-checking.html
> >
> > is this just not the same thing in essence?
> >
> >
> > What about GUB?
> >
> > Might that be a (more) worthwhile 'project' for a machine like this?
>
> It's not not possible - it's not what I had in mind, but it sounds like a 
> good idea.
> I'll likely be spending a few days in July getting this thing up and 
> running so we have until then to figure out what we want to do with it.


If you're going to get GUB running on it, I strongly suggest doing so inside 
a VirtualBox LilyDev VM.  Doing this made it fairly easy for me to get GUB 
running, whereas I failed completely on the "real" machine.

It may depend on your hardware whether this makes sense.  My Ubuntu build 
box can multithread within the VM, whereas my (older) Windows box can't.

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Phil Holmes