Re: 3.0?

[Urs Liska]

Am 09.01.2014 12:03, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen:
> Urs Liska writes:
>
> > Is there _any_ notion what a LilyPond 3.0 may be?
>
> I could imagine that if LilyPond were made into an engraving library,
> and/or heavy rewiring to make it deeply integrated with a gui,

Hm, this is something I was also thinking about: Of course LilyPond 
itself will never get graphical editing but remains a dedicated 
engraving tool.
But it would probably make it more attractive for the consumer market if 
it had a nice default GUI. I personally would be pleased to see 
Frescobaldi become such a default GUI (of course not cutting out other 
options). Particularly given the prospect of Frescobaldi providing 
graphical editing capabilities soon (and provided we'll get the Mac OSX 
installation sorted out).

Would such a step be _conceptually_ acceptable or should LilyPond remain 
"GUI-agnostic"?

> or accept
> another native input language like the lilypond-driven fixed fresh
> release of MusicXML 4.0; something like that would warrant 3.0.

In that context: Does anybody have experience/knowledge/contact with MEI 
(www.music-encoding.org)?

> > I mean 2.0 followed on 1.8, and now we're already towards .20
>
> We had major language changes and a deep incorporation of Guile, those
> made good excuses to move away from the 1.0 series.

Ah, OK:

Urs
> Jan


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