Re: Bringing LilyPad into LilyPond

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Ed Baskerville wrote:
> > LilyPond.app has been my work, but I don't mind if someone else  steps 
> > to continue improveming and developing it. However, I do  oppose to 
> > Objective-C as development language. We already have too  many 
> > languages (C++, Python, Scheme and bits of C)- and I see a  
> > maintenance problem with adding another one. The wrapper for  
> > LilyPond.app has been written in Python, which is fortunately  pretty 
> > simple to learn and use.
>
>
> That's certainly an understandable position. I don't know Python, but  I 
> have been meaning to learn. From an initial glance through the  PyObjC 
> documentation, I think it would probably be possible to re- implement 
> LilyPad in Python, but it would take a fair amount of work,  and would 
> require writing Python wrappers for a couple of frameworks  in addition 
> to writing the application code itself.

Which frameworks? AFAIK the wrappers are generated automatically from 
the Objective libraries, so they should be already available.

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