On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 at 19:34 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > That's pretty good, actually. Not being able to do native/online > compilations by anybody wanting to is bad. Yes. Fixes to GUB (possibly > even just to its information/documentation, maybe it _can_ do it > already) are of course welcome:
David, At a brief look over GUB, the really big question in my mind is why on earth it seems to want to build *everything*. A Lilypond build tool for all platforms = a great idea. A Lilypond build tool for all platforms to which someone's added half a dozen extra unrelated targets (possibly very large ones such as OpenOffice) = a terrible idea. If I did anything to "fix" it, it would be to strip it right back to a tool that does _one_ job well. And I don't know whether that's likely to be popular thing (although correct me if I'm wrong there)... ... because IMHO a build tool that takes 24+ hours to rebuild after making tweaks to it --and that's on a high spec machine-- is not a very useful tool. Chris
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