Re: Lilypond API

[Graham Percival]

Search the mailist; a way of running lilypond as a server and
avoiding re-loading guile every time has been posted at least
twice.

I'm not aware of any API, nor any serious effort to write one.
This could be a nice addition, though, so I would encourage your
company to assign a developer to work on this and contribute GPL'd
patches so that everybody can benefit.

Cheers,
- Graham


On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:23:17PM +0000, M. Andria wrote:
> Hi,
> My company is working on a university project that involves management of 
> very 
> large music database ; we are using Lilypond to generate png images (programs 
> written in C and also inside PHP scripts).
> As far as i know, the only way to call Lilypond is through the command line, 
> which not optimal in the context of our project, mainly for performance and 
> error management reasons (the system is supposed to be able to handle quickly 
> a 
> large number of concurrent calls).
> We are wondering wether an API for lilypond exists. The answer seems to be 
> no... so i would like to ask you : Does it make sense to have this kind of 
> feature (if no, how to deal with performance issues) ? do you plan to develop 
> this in the future ?
> 
> Thank you for your answer.
> Regards,
> 
> M. Andria
> 
> 
> 
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