Re: openlilylib pull request

[Simon Albrecht]

On 08/05/2022 20:37, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> The case study of how OLL fell out of maintenance is one of the
> things leading me to think that a model where snippets providing
> significant functionality and becoming somewhat popular get
> upstreamed into the LilyPond core is a better fit for LilyPond
> than them letting them be provided through external packages. 


In many cases, that may be true. In other cases, it really makes sense 
to allow for a more flexible space of user code available to the community.

The TeX ecosystem may have some issues with maintaining packages and 
especially with interoperability, but it provides an unbelievable wealth 
of high-quality additions to the core software that could never be 
provided otherwise. Due to the relative lack of adoption and the small 
size of the community LilyPond can’t seem to take some threshold toward 
creating a similarly stable ecosystem (so far?).

Best, Simon