Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> writes: > On 12/16/18, 6:42 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Andrew Bernard" > <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on behalf of > andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am new to lilypond dev. work. My intention may be naive, but I am > wanting > to do the work to uplift gub and lilypond to python 3. Am I premature, or > foolish, or misguided? I did have some encouraging email about this > previously, but I just wanted to check before I dive in and spend large > amounts of time, especially re GUB. > > > I'm quite certain you're not premature. > > I don't know if you're foolish or misguided. > > GUB is a lot old, and a little bit (or maybe more) fragile. It's > primary developer (Jan) has decided he doesn't want to work more on > it. He'd rather pursue a different method of doing the > cross-compilation.
Nix will not build Windows binaries, so it's not like his current pursuits will lead to a replacement of what GUB does for us. We don't really have any workable alternative on the horizon. But I do think we can retire at least the PPC platforms. And I don't think the FreeBSD compilations are used a lot either. > I think that you need to investigate and make your own decision. > Spend a bit of time trying to get to understand GUB. Try making the > changes you want to make. See how it works. See if you can wrap your > arms around it. If you can become an expert in GUB, you'll be an > invaluable asset to the Lilypond development team. Personally, I'd > love to have you do that! A Python 3 migration would be useful but of course requires some GUB lifting. It definitely would be a sizable amount of work. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
