Re: Plan for discussions

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

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?

> Consideration will be given to overall compile speed, but that's
> it.  A really intelligent editor could only update sections of the
> score at once (via the clip or skipMeasures functionality), but
> again that's back to "alternate program" territory.

Well, the problem of LP right now is that to tweak a single note requires a 
complete rebuild of the score regardless of how minimally it affects the final 
output.  That has a significant impact on making minor edits to a large score. 
If the compilation process could be addressed to handle that (e.g. by not having 
to re-parse parts of the input that haven't changed) that could be a major plus.