This sounds a lot like lilybin.com... - Abraham
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> wrote: > I know this has been discussed in various flavors over the years, but I > need to raise the issue once more. Please note that this actually > encloses two questions. > > Would it be possible to make LilyPond work in a server mode where the > whole Guile environment is loaded only once and the running server would > be listening and accepting files to compile (or maybe piped .ly input or > even Scheme music expressions)? > > I assume this could provide significant improvements in a number of use > cases. > > How fundamentally would one have to turn LilyPond's architecture upside > down for this? Is this conceptually impossible, just difficult or simply > too big to have been tackled so far? > > Is this a task that could *somehow* be estimated in developer > weeks/months if one would dream of a paid developer? > > > ### > > A second idea is not directly related but would rely on the first. If > LilyPond *could* run as a server, would there be a chance to keep the > parsed document (i.e. not the engraving) in memory? > This may seem nonsensical, but if I'm not mistaken this would open up > the possibility to recompile a document with changed edition-engraver > mods. As these could also comprise skipTypesetting commands this would > make it possible to recompile an arbitrary excerpt (e.g. the current > system) of a score while tweaking, without LilyPond having to parse the > whole score over and over again. > > Same questions as above: conceptually possible at all, any estimate on > the size of such an endeavour? > > Thanks > Urs > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-devel mailing list > lilypond-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
