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Possible GSoC project?

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Feb 18, 2015, 19:27 UTC
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Maybe it would be worthwhile to explore GUB <URL:http://www.lilypond.org/gub> for rolling the Windows (and possibly Cygwin as well, but then they tend to do their own) release/installer for Git?

LilyPond has a similar mixture of scripting engines and target-dependent bits-of-GNU that it packages into its installers (for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX on PowerPC as well as x86, Windows) using GUB, and as far as developers are concerned, the synchronized releases happen without any extra work and involvement just by letting the standard release scripts roll.

Looking at <URL:http://lilypond.org/gub/applications>, there appears to be a Git recipe already, but it will likely not be an installed bundle including the necessary scripting engines (what's it? Tk, Perl, Bash/Dash, and similar?).

So it might be worth figuring out what is needed for setting this up in order to have a run-and-forget kind of release for a number of platforms.

-- 
David Kastrup
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  1. David KastrupFeb 18, 2015

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