Re: Parsing JSON in C++

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 9:55 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on
LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Am Montag, den 22.06.2020, 16:44 -0700 schrieb Owen Lamb:
> > Thanks, everyone! It looks like jsoncpp should work well for LilyPond.
> >
> > I don't have experience with adding files from one project to another.
> > Jonas, is this "Amalgamated" procedure what you were describing?
> > https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/wiki/Amalgamated-(Possibly-outdated)
>
> Yes, that's what I did a few years back. I think there used to be
> amalgamated versions of the releases, not sure if they vanished or I'm
> just mistaken. In any case, I'd recommend using version 1.8.4; 1.9.x
> will eventually lead to version 2.0, but the developers are not there
> yet.
>
>
> > If so, when instructions say to add the generated files to one's project,
> > does that mean to just copy them into the lilypond-git directory somewhere?
>
> Pretty much that, yes.
>
> > Where would be a good place to put them?
>
> No clue. Historically, that sounds like a job for flower/, but I'm not
> a fan of the current split between flower/ and lily/. Please get
> opinions from other developers that have been involved longer than me.

How many files are they?

If there are many of them, we should have a separate subdirectory. If
it's just a few, flower/ would be a good place.

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