As such I bought me a subscription to SourceForge.net and created a launchpad for the project.
I am not saying that we _have to_ use either SourceForge, or the technologies I listed in the description. Neither an I saying that 'AlphabetSoup' is a good name for the project and that I will fight for it. It's as open for discussion as the rest. I simply had to provide something to complete the registration, and wanted something a little more clever and interesting than 'abcparser'.
The registration is pending approval. Feel free to join. I believe you do not need to be a paid member to join a project, only to create a project. Here's the information I submitted, currently being evaluated by the SourceForge staff for project approval.
Project Information -------------------
1. Submitter: thistledowne
2. Project UNIX Name: alphabetsoup
3. Project Descriptive Name: AlphabetSoup - ABC Music Notation Parser
4. License: Other custom license (OSD-compliant Open Source)
License other: my project will be licensed under the GNU GPL and Artistic license, like perl
5. Project Description: AlphabetSoup seeks to serve as a universal parser engine and API for ABC notation as detailed at http://www.abcmusicnotation.org/ for use by any ABC software developer on any platform.
6. Registration Description: AlphabetSoup seeks to serve as a universal parser engine and API for ABC notation as detailed at http://www.abcmusicnotation.org/ for use by any ABC software developer on any platform.
Years of use of ABC notation by the ABC community has shown that the ABC music notation concept might be greatly benefited by a parser written by and encouraging adherence to the standards set by the developers of the ABC musical notation standard.
Development language and style has yet to be set in stone. Currently discussion is leaning towards implementation using ANSI C and/or C++.
While format is yet to be determined, goals are not. The goals of this project are:
1. To write a parser in lockstep with development and refinement of the ABC standard. 2. To write a parser available to developers writing for any platform existing, and yet to exist. 3. To encourage, but not limit developers to adhere to the ABC standard, while allowing for certain extensions and user-created elements. 4. To possess an intuitive and useful API to ease ABC software development, and encourage use of the unified parser. 5. To write a parser which makes very efficient use of machine resources so that it may be scaled for use by handheld and real-time megaWebMusicDatabase servers alike.
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