On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 13:19 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Villum Sejersen <v...@privat.tdcadsl.dk> writes: > > > On 18-12-2015 09:31, David Kastrup wrote: > > > >> Villum Sejersen<v...@privat.tdcadsl.dk> writes: > >>> [...] > >>>> Nope. What parts of stepmake LilyPond needs are included in LilyPond > >>>> itself. > >>> Well, that's good to know, but where is it documented? > >> Documenting all non-dependencies would be excessive. > > > > Then I suggest that at least 1.9 in INSTALL.txt should be > > reformulated. As written now it is really confusing, leading - as I > > did - to expect to have to look for an external dependency. > > It says: > > 1.9 Build system > ================ > > We currently use make and stepmake, which is complicated and only used > by us. Hopefully this will change in the future. > > "Only used by us" does not sound like an external dependency. And 1.2.2 > and 1.4.2 deal with dependencies. Why would you expect information > about dependencies to come far after compilation instructions? >
but "Only used internally" might be clearer. "Only used by us" could be interpreted as "LilyPond is the only project left on the planet needing it" Richard _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
