Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello John!
>
>
>> I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with
>> C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with
>> Scheme.
>
> Assuming that you are a Windows guy: It would be great if you could
> make lilypond compile on that platform!

Why?  Our crosscompilation caters for all compilation dependencies and
runtime dependencies (Windows does not have installation procedures
keeping track of dependencies) and delivers an up-to-date installer
together with the rest.

If you take a look at Git, a project that bothers maintaining a separate
Windows compilation and is, like LilyPond packagings for non-GNU
systems, comprised of a number of utilities it depends on, serious
effort goes into maintaining a Windows executable package and it's still
easily trailing months behind the main development rather than the two
weeks our development release procedure causes.

> There are also some rough edges here and there that would need a
> helping hand from someone who is an experienced programmer.

It's not just an "experienced programmer" since a lot of experiences
with LilyPond are rather unique.  So one needs time and openness in
order to immerse oneself into the kind of C++/Guile/Scheme mixture our
code base is written in.

-- 
David Kastrup