On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:40:37PM +0100, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > I feel a very big obstacle for fixing bugs: the lack of modern tools for > developing LilyPond.
What, precisely do you mean by this? - C++ and scheme sucks? I doubt this will change. - the build system sucks? we're working on changing that. - new contributors spending days fiddling with indentation before they can get patches approved? there's an issue tracker about automatically indenting code to avoid this problem. (nobody's working on it, but we *do* know about the problem) I don't think there's many problems that the lilypond developers aren't already aware of (although, tautogically, I'm not aware of any problems that I don't know about). The problem is finding people to fix them -- yes, even to fix the problems in developer tools (and developer "processes", such as bug reports). Take a look at the "maintainability" tag in the tracker. Almost all of those things are items which slow down (or even discourage/prevent) development. Now who's going to start fixing them? Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
