There's an interesting discussion (since five years!) why lilypond can't be integrated into wikipedia yet:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189 A resumé of the discussion is this last comment (from about a week ago): We want LilyPond to be as safe to call as, say, ImageMagick (or ABC!). If it's configured correctly, we should be guaranteed that it will terminate in a reasonably short amount of time while using a reasonably small amount of memory/disk/network/etc. I think this is a clear enough requirement to relay. Alternatively, if LilyPond devs won't do this, someone could write a preprocessing sanitizer of some kind like we have for LaTeX, as long as it achieves the same effect. Tim Starling, one of the main wikipeda software developers, says: My understanding is that a) safe mode is not secure, being trivially DoS-able by short infinite loop scripts b) safe mode will not work for many of the free scores available on the web The problems with LilyPond are sufficiently severe that I have, from time to time, researched alternative music renderers such as Philip's Music Writer that don't have an embedded scripting language. Anyone who can shed more light on the raised issues? Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
