Re: Plan for discussions

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:52:32AM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 14/05/12 07:37, Graham Percival wrote:
> >No.  LilyPond is a command-line "compiler".  That's something that
> >would happen in an alternate program.
> 
> I'm not disputing that, or suggesting that you go into GUI/IDE
> territory directly -- what I'm suggesting is that consideration be
> given to what might help enable such an alternative program.  E.g.
> can LP be in a position to permit an IDE to perform efficient
> background compilation, enabling it to update as you type, and to
> alert you to errors in your input?

Sure.  We already have a lilypond server mode, which nobody wants
to document or maintain.  We also have
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=686
which nobody has wanted to work on for almost 4 years now.

Ideas are easy.  Execution is hard.

- Graham