"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes: > From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> > To: <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> > >> There is a _reason_ the remaining OSX and Windows based developers >> are doing (definitely important) documentation and web site work. >> They are to a large degree locked out and dependent on support from >> surplus GNU/Linux-based developer capacities. We are not doing them >> any favors by killing LilyPond development as a whole out of sympathy >> with their plight. > > Not at all. I think you know that myself and James are mainly Windows > users. We also run big Ubuntu machines that support the build > environment. However, we came to the development from being Windows > users. Cut off that supply and I'll probably stop supporting Lily, > which I would regret.
You are compiling your own binaries without using GNU/Linux in the process? That's what a native development environment would look like. >>> - what does this do to our ONLY documentation writers and >>> reviewers (who are all windows-based)? Will they be a) more >>> motivated to work on lilypond, b) no change, or c) less >>> motivated? >> >> We are already screwing them over with GNU/Linux-only "developer >> releases". When will we stop using our Windows and OSX developers as >> an excuse for not working on a stable release that would actually >> warrant the effort of getting GUB working again and matched to >> current Windows and OSX releases? > > Not true - see above. Documentation and web writing without a functional lilypond-book strikes me as somewhat difficult. It is nice that things are not as completely broken as I thought. But I still think that our effectively current philosophy of "the next stable release is something only developers interested in Windows and OSX need to concern themselves with" is doing anybody a favor. Our road map has nothing to offer beyond GUB, and so there is little interest in getting even there. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
