Re: developers developers developers

[David Kastrup]

"Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" <address@hidden> writes:

> I feel a very big obstacle for fixing bugs: the lack of modern tools
> for developing LilyPond.
>
> For example in the CG there are many advices about Emacs, which
> according to the opinion of the 94% of the expert (really expert!)
> software developers I know (there are quite many of them) has been a
> piece of useless crap relative to Eclipse or Netbeans for at least 7
> years now.

Uh, Emacs has not exactly been standing still the last 7 years.  Anyway,
nobody is keeping your experts from using and documenting Eclipse or
Netbeans for creating Lilypond files.

> Perhaps even the development platform should be changed here and there
> to make sure there are good tools to use.

One thing I have learnt in the past: it is mostly pointless to try
supporting a platform that is not your own choice.  If others are
passionate enough about it, they will do a better job than you can.

Lilypond is a batch processing system.  You can use whatever editor you
like with it.  If there are people who like Emacs, that does not change
Lilypond to the better or worse.

-- 
David Kastrup