Re: GSoC 2016

[Urs Liska]

Am 26.01.2016 um 10:21 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Would it be an acceptable/interesting project to bring the ScholarLY
>> library to a finished state and (optionally) integrate it with
>> LilyPond?
> Personally I don't think "integrating ScholarLY" with LilyPond is the
> right course: it is a rather special-purpose case.  I think the question
> we should rather solve is how to modify LilyPond and its tools and
> infrastructure such that it becomes easy to fetch, drop in, and maintain
> things like ScholarLy when developed externally.
>
> Basically CTAN for LilyPond.  I mean, the acronym CLAN is actually nice.
>
> What we distribute as "LilyPond core" should be a reasonably cohesive
> set of features and capabilities.  If the coverage of musical issues
> provided outside of the core is more diverse and spotty and of different
> quality, that's then the responsibility of "special interest groups"
> rather than the LilyPond core developers.  It would also allow people to
> contribute to a community without having to integrate themselves into
> the communications and working style of the core development.
>
> I'm not sure that this aspect is something that would work well as a
> GSoC project.  With regard to the "bring to a finished state" angle, you
> are probably the best judge of how well-suited as a project that would
> be, likely with yourself as tutor.
>

Actually what you are writing is very much what I am thinking. ScholarLY
(and all the other conceivable libraries) are indeed better suited for
external development and maintenance.
There is actually some work going on towards something like a CTAN for
LilyPond. But less a CTAN but rather a tool that intends to fetch,
install and load packages/libraries from arbitrary (publicly available)
Git repositories. One person (i.e. not me) is actively working on a
prototype, and I think we (he)'ll bring it to a wider (developer)
audience in the not-too-distant future.

So my question could be rephrased: Would it be acceptable to suggest a
GSoC project if such an external library is *not* going to be included
in LilyPond directly? With regard to the project I'm convinced that this
would work out in the context/frame of a GSoC project.

Urs