Re: Bringing LilyPad into LilyPond

[Ed Baskerville]

> LilyPond.app has been my work, but I don't mind if someone else  
> steps to continue improveming and developing it. However, I do  
> oppose to Objective-C as development language. We already have too  
> many languages (C++, Python, Scheme and bits of C)- and I see a  
> maintenance problem with adding another one. The wrapper for  
> LilyPond.app has been written in Python, which is fortunately  
> pretty simple to learn and use.

That's certainly an understandable position. I don't know Python, but  
I have been meaning to learn. From an initial glance through the  
PyObjC documentation, I think it would probably be possible to re- 
implement LilyPad in Python, but it would take a fair amount of work,  
and would require writing Python wrappers for a couple of frameworks  
in addition to writing the application code itself.

Therefore, I think my approach will be this: for the immediate  
future, I'll maintain and improve LilyPad in Objective-C as a  
separate project. Over time, I may learn Python and see what features  
can be added to LilyPond.app.

> The easiest would be to check out the installers/macos/ module from  
> savannah CVS. In the LilyPad subdirectory, you'll find a pyobjc  
> application, which you can build with
>
>   python setup py2app.py
>
> set LILYPOND_DEBUG_APPDIR=/Applications/LilyPond.app/ , and you  
> will be able to run dist/LilyPond.app

Great, I'll check this out.

--Ed