3.2.3 Other repositories

We have a few other code repositories.


lilypond-extra

There is a separate repository for general administrative scripts, as well as pictures and media files for the website. People interested in working on the website should download this repository, and set their $LILYPOND_WEB_MEDIA_GIT environment variable to point to that repository.

https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-extra

To configure an environment variable in bash (the default for most GNU/Linux distributions),

export LILYPOND_WEB_MEDIA_GIT=$HOME/dir/of/lilypond-extra/

Be aware that lilypond-extra is the definitive source for some binary files - in particular PDF versions of papers concerning LilyPond. To add further PDFs of this sort, all that is necessary is to add the PDF to lilypond-extra and then add a reference to it in the documentation. The file will then be copied to the website when make website is run.

However, pictures that are also used in the documentation build are mastered in the main git repository. If any of these is changed, it should be updated in git, and then the updates copied to lilypond-extra.


Grand Unified Builder (GUB)

Another item of interest might be the Grand Unified Builder, our cross-platform building tool. Since it is used by other projects as well, it is not stored in our gub repository. For more info, see http://lilypond.org/gub.

There are two locations for this repository: the version being used to build lilypond, which is at

http://github.com/gperciva/gub

and the original version by Jan Nieuwenhuizen, kept at

http://github.com/janneke/gub

lilypad

Our binary releases on MacOS X and Windows contain a lightweight text editor. This code is here:

https://github.com/gperciva/lilypad

yet more repositories

There are a few other repositories floating around, which will hopefully be documented in the near future.


LilyPond — Contributor’s Guide v2.18.2 (stable-branch).