There's a surprising amount of interest in contributing to LilyPond from Windows machines. (err, I mean, from people *with* Windows machines, not from the actual machines themselves)
As I understand it, people with Windows can: - run GUB - get the sources with git - compile the docs without examples by running texi2html manually - compile the docs with GUB - write docstrings, fix bugs, and add new features to .scm files However, they cannot: - compile lilypond - write bugfixes, new features, and "code janitor" C++ files Is the above correct? If so, is there any hope of changing the cannot-compile status? In particular, - does anybody feel like making cygwin packages for the missing software? - does anybody have VMware (commercial version) and feel like making a small Linux installation which has all the required software? Potential contributors would be able to run this in the free VMware version. - does anybody feel like making shell accounts available for windows users? (I'm not at all certain how many windows contributors would feel comfortable using such a system, but I include it here for correctness) I suspect that the answer to the above questions is "no", so I'll write the CG / new website to make this clear. But it's worth checking first. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
