Re: LilyPond 2.23.7 released

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 22:37 -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> On 3/31/22 15:34, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 19:22 -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> > > In addition to the binary download now being a plain tarball, I note
> > > that the directory structure within lilypond-2.23.7-documentation.tar.xz
> > > is significantly different from what it was in previous revisions:
> > > 
> > > <snip>
> > > 
> > > Was this also deliberate?
> > 
> > No, that was just me not carefully checking what GUB did for the
> > documentation tarball and nobody complaining for the 2.23.6 release. I
> > guess GUB did a "make install-doc" to also include the info and man
> > pages? What we package right now are the HTML pages and PDFs, what you
> > used to find in share/doc/.
> > 
> > But since you are apparently a user of the tarball, may I ask which
> > formats you look at? Would you potentially benefit from splitting the
> > PDFs and having a smaller archive?
> 
> 2.23.6 had the same directory tree as all others, which is why nobody 
> complained then.

Yes, the one on lilypond.org built by GUB had. The one built with Guile
2.2 announced on the mailing list was the same as 2.23.7 - but anyway.

> I’ve only ever used the documentation tarball for Frescobaldi to point 
> to.

Ok, I didn't know that feature. It actually works with the new
structure as well, but it will be fixed with this merge request:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1284

> (And since it’s increasingly rare for me to be using Lilypond in 
> places where I don’t have ’net access, I’m using that much less than I 
> used to.)  So yes, a split archive of only HTML files would be useful.

Thanks for the input, I've added the information to
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/946

Jonas

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