Re: [Denemo-devel] status report

[Nils Gey]

So what are the points which are delaying the release?
I only can say "release early, release often". If you are aware of what is 
broken (all the import/export stuff which recently came up) you can write it as 
a known bug, can't you?

I am awaiting the new release to announce Denemo in some places and to search 
for new developers. 

Nils

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:42:51 +0100
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:01 +1000, Roy Rankin wrote:
> > I am currently dumping and reading back simple LilyPond files from 
> > Denemo.  However, I still have a few issues to cleanup, but if I do not 
> > manage to get this done tonight, my next chunk of free time will be 
> > early next week.
> I have also been getting a chance to look over this, and I think I
> understand the code as at present.
> Could you just email me the lyparser.* lyparserfuncs.* files that you
> have, so that I can understand where you have got to? (Don't email them
> to the list, as it blocks (large?) attachemts, send them direct or post
> them up somewhere).
> I would like to read over what you have done, to see how it fits in to
> my understanding of the code. It doesn't need to be compilable or
> anything, just readable.
> 
>  As the code no longer needs to keep the input LilyPond as strings for
> output (which was the purpose of the old code) I think it can be
> simplified and made more able to cope with LilyPond from a variety of
> sources. 
> 
> In the slightly longer term, I hope be able to select some LilyPond text
> in a foreign text file (viz. a block of music) and paste it directly
> into Denemo, using the lyparser (essentially, by surrounding it with
> \score{ .... } and then parsing it in to a clipboard score).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> > 
> > Of course at this point the code is most likely not bullet proof.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Roy Rankin
> > 
> > 
> > Richard Shann wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 22:15 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > >> What is left on the TODO list for the release? 
> > > Well, no one has actually said that they think the release should
> > > contain a fix for LilyPond import, but Roy is keen that it should be
> > > possible to load back simple Denemo files saved in LilyPond format, and
> > > I am keen that it should load some LilyPond files (for which fixes are
> > > available). I have been getting to grips with the LilyPond load for this
> > > purpose, but I can't say quite how long it may take.
> > > It is one of the curses of projects like this that no one says they need
> > > something until we announce a release, and then it drags on and on. I
> > > think we should set deadlines for feature requests, announce a schedule
> > > and, barring showstopping bugs, stick to it.
> > > 
> > >> I do not want to make any
> > >> changes to importMidi until the next release. I think I will check out
> > >> the docs and see what I update. When we make a release it may be
> > >> embarrassing if the docs are behind. I will look over them and have them
> > >> update sometime tomorrow.  
> > > That sounds good, the Print Excerpt has no documentation, I think. There
> > > is an email from you which I didn't respond to (sorry) about this: the
> > > situation is that if you have a selection, you probably want that as the
> > > excerpt, or you may want the whole piece of music as a .png (which is
> > > only properly supported if it fits on one page, else the user has to dig
> > > the rest out from .denemo/denemoprint*<n>*.png for n pages), (or even to
> > > select measures by start measure number/end measure number). The
> > > interface is supposed to support all this, (but is a bit cheap and
> > > cheerful?).
> > > 
> > > Richard
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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