On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 06:30:29PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> writes: > > >> And if each engraver specifies what engravers it is relying on in a > >> machine-readable manner (or the respective order in which it wants to be > >> applied), then Lilypond can actually do the required sorting and figure > >> out a proper order at runtime.
I was initially unenthused by this idea (it would add yet more starting overhead), but then I remembered about guile 2.0's "compiled" scheme idea, which we could presumably use to store the network. > Any proposal that is not worth even thinking about before a complete > patch is provided is not worth the work of creating the patch in the > first place. True... > This half-sentence reply is a frequent occurence on this list, but it > comes across as "buzz off, underling, until you prove yourself more > worthy of our attention". ... well, it's often used to mean precisely that. But it's used on random users who have a weird idea and who almost certainly won't ever do anything. There's some spectacular counter-examples, of course. I remember telling a young whippersnapper called "Joe" that there was no point considering a vertical skyline algorithm in lilypond unless he was offering to write it himself. :) > diff -u /tmp/insolence /tmp/insolence2 > --- /tmp/insolence 2010-04-28 18:25:54.673977605 +0200 > +++ /tmp/insolence2 2010-04-28 18:27:02.956127873 +0200 Beautiful. :) In Carl's defense, he's horribly busy with end-of-term teaching (which always penalizes one's real work, namely research) and then has a conference to deal with. When we deal with open-source volunteer projects while we have that much stress in our lives, we all get short-tempered. I'm certain that you can think of examples from my own emails. I don't think it was appropriate in this context, though. And if you were willing to look into it, David, I think you're an ideal candidate for this kind of work. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
