Please consider getting your feet wet with https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4789/ . (Developers who are actually familiar with MIDI generation may wish to shoot down this idea.) — Dan
> On Mar 26, 2016, at 15:49 , Daniel Birns <daniel.bi...@icloud.com> wrote: > > 1) I have a good build, have made a trivial modification, and it seems to > work. (I found a class (Midi-duration) that’s unused. I commented it out, and > everything builds fine. Since there’s no references to it, I presume the > testsuites will be unaffected, though you never know... > 2) I’m reading ‘contributor.pdf’. It says I will be assigned a mentor. That’s > fine with me either way, but I’m curious if perhaps there’s some formal route > I should go through at this point. > 3) My plan is to work via the C++ files and improve the midi output. I see > several .cc files with midi in their name and I think 4 header files with > midi in the name. > > So, at this point, I could use some advice about 1) where to focus in the > contributor.pdf, and 2) some idea of the architecture, particularly with > regard to midi processing. Of course, I could try to figure that out myself, > but that doesn’t seem like the right approach. > > The first thing I need to do is understand what’s going on today before I > muck with anything. > > -d > >> On Mar 26, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: >> >> On 3/26/16 9:49 AM, "lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on >> behalf of Daniel Birns" <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org >> on behalf of daniel.bi...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> What is LilyDev? >> >> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilydev >> >> >> A Debian iso ready-to-go for doing LilyPond development. >> >> I used to maintain a usable lilypond development site on OS X. New >> updates to OS X invariably broke the site and required hours or days of >> fixing things. LilyDev in a VirtualBox VM always works, and works easily. >> >> I would really recommend using LilyDev in a VM. >> >> Carl >> > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
