Re: mutopia's shortcomings

[Urs Liska]

Am 27.04.2015 um 16:15 schrieb Noeck:
> Dear Kieren,
>
> > With the edition-engraver, there is (a) no need to mix layout with contents
> I already wanted to submit a score to Mutopia using the edition
> engraver. But I finally used ordinary tweaks because we were not sure
> how future proof this is. This bings me to my questions:
>
> 1. How stable is the interface of the edition engraver?

not production-ready.

>     Will the commands to use it change?

Probably yes.

> 2. Will it always be in the current place of OpenLilyLib?

Definitely not. As 90% of openLilyLib that will be migrated to the new, 
"real" infrastructure, once this is ready enough.
Currently OLL is more or less a bunch of more or less useful code 
snippets. Through the reorganization it will become a set of 
well-defined libraries that can be used like libraries and that are 
documented like software libraries.
The last part is what hasn't been implemented yet, and i do *not* want 
significant portions of code to be migrated before we can guarantee that.

> 3. Might it get integrated into the core of LilyPond?
>     (Currently it is not guaranteed that OLL is available when Mutopia
>     scores are compiled, so its usage is complicated)

We have the intention to do so. For now it is good to have it in 
openLilyLib, a place that is much more "public" than Jan-Peter's own 
repository, so we can test, discuss and develop it until it (hopefully) 
becomes mature and robust enough to be integrated in LilyPond itself.

HTH
Urs

> Because it does not make sense to improve the maintainability of a large
> set of scores by relying on a functionality that has to be adapted
> manually in future and thus produces more manual interventions.
>
> To be clear, I like the edition engraver very much.
>
> Cheers,
> Joram
>
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