On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:42:15PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2009/8/4 Graham Percival <[email protected]>: > > There you go: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-11/msg00024.html > > This is huge! (I suspect I wasn't subscribed to -devel when this was > posted, otherwise I'd have noticed it). > > Even though there's clearly no magic recipe to speed up LilyPond > (except multi-threading, but we're nowhere near implementing it), the > server approach could be very, very useful for all kind of purposes.
Why do people never believe me when I say that there's tons of cool stuff we /could/ do, if only more people helped out? If the website was finished earlier (i.e. if people contributed content), then I'd have worked on this during the summer. If more people helped out, we could have a much better set of "safe" lilypond commands. The above two points would let us run multi-threaded web-available lilypond servers for doing multiple small snippets at once. If more people helped out, we could have started+finished GLISS already, and have a stable syntax (for the commands). If more people helped out, we might actually have a *decreasing* list of issues. There are tons of cool stuff we /could/ do. In my idle moments, I make plans of how it would be organized, how the overall work structure would go, etc. But there's no point trying to do cool stuff unless the foundation is solid. We need more people working on those foundations. Cheers, - Graham PS yes, I was planning on writing an article about all the cool stuff we *could* be doing, if only people helped out with the mundane/routine jobs, as a continuation of my Report contribution. Of course, there's no point writing the sequel until the first one is published. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
