release: 0.1.63

[lilypond.git] / PATCHES.txt

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@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@ ABSTRACT
 
        o    make your fix/add your code
 
+       o    Add changes to NEWS, and add yourself to
+            Documentation/AUTHORS.pod
+
        o    generate a patch,
 
        o    e-mail your patch to one of the mailing lists gnu-
-            music-discuss@gnu.org or bug-gnu-music@gnu.org (or if
-            you're a bit shy, to the maintainer).
+            music-discuss@gnu.org or bug-gnu-music@gnu.org
 
 GENERATING A PATCH
        In VERSION, set TOPLEVEL_MY_PATCH_LEVEL:
@@ -56,12 +58,10 @@ PREREQUISITES
        o    All items mentioned in INSTALL.  You're not going to
             send a patch that you haven't even built, right?
 
-       o    GNU Diff
-
 
 
 
-20/Apr/98                LilyPond 0.1.58                        1
+12/May/98                LilyPond 0.1.63                        1
 
 
 
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ PREREQUISITES
 PATCHES(1)            LilyPond documentation           PATCHES(1)
 
 
+       o    GNU Diff
+
        o    Python (version 1.4 or newer).  You can of course
             make a patch by hand, which would go something like:
 
@@ -89,6 +91,20 @@ PATCHES(1)            LilyPond documentation           PATCHES(1)
                 test/
 
 
+       If you're following LilyPond development regularly, you
+       probably want to download just the patch for each
+       subsequent release.  After downloading the patch (into the
+       patches directory, of course), simply apply it:
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+           gzip -dc ../patches/patch-0.1.49.gz | patch -p1 -E
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+       and don't forget to make automatically generated files:
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+           autoconf 1)
+           configure
+
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+SYNCHRONISE
        If you're not very quick with sending your patch, there's
        a good chance that an new release of LilyPond comes
        available.  In such a case (and sometimes for other unkown
@@ -98,12 +114,30 @@ PATCHES(1)            LilyPond documentation           PATCHES(1)
        against this new source tree:
 
            cd lilypond-0.1.49
-           zpatch -p0 -E < ../patches/patch-0.1.48.jcn1.gz
+           gzip -dc ../patches/patch-0.1.48.jcn1.gz | patch -p1 -E
+           autoconf 1)
+           configure
 
        Then, make a patch as shown above.
 
+       1) patches don't include automatically generated files,
+       i.e. configure
+          and files generated by configure.
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+PATCHES(1)            LilyPond documentation           PATCHES(1)
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 MAINTAINER
-       Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.ruu.nl>
+       Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
 
        Just keep on sending those patches!
 
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