On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:00 AM Jonas Hahnfeld <hah...@hahnjo.de> wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 20.06.2020, 10:52 +0200 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 1:30 AM Owen Lamb <owendl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I need to be able to expose the contents of a SMuFL font's JSON metadata > > > file to LilyPond. From what I can tell, LilyPond currently doesn't have > > > any > > > sort of JSON-parsing library in its dependencies, either in Scheme or in > > > C++. An internet search revealed that there are... a *lot* of options. > > > Is there a particular one that would suit LilyPond the > > > best, legally/otherwise? > > > > I know of jansson, which is used by universal-ctags, which is a plain > > C library. > > > > I took a look at jsoncpp mentioned below as well. > > > > Both jansson and jsoncpp appear to come with extensive docs and tests, > > which is encouraging. They're roughly equally large (5k lines), and > > appear to have no further dependencies. They're both available under > > MIT license, which is OK for us. > > For jsoncpp, I know that upstream has instruction how to bundle the > source with the code that uses it. This means no added dependency and > no configure checks which are hard to get right. Not sure if this is > also possible with jansson.
Nice. Also jsoncpp is C++ , so it's probably the better fit. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
