Re: Openlilylib

[Peter Crighton]

Welcome back, Andrew, and thanks for picking up the OLL work again!

After a bit of a break I recently worked with LilyPond again and had to search the mailing list for some time to get everything up and running with the newest version and OLL again, which made me realise how much I rely on OLL whilst not having the technical knowhow to fix things myself. So your return and plans are very good news to me.

Could you perhaps post a summary with all the relevant links? For example, I’m not sure if it’ll be the old GitHub repository or a fork, and I don’t think I ever knew there was a Discourse forum (or I forgot).

Thanks,

Peter

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Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
https://www.petercrighton.de

On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 10:28, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@mailbox.org> wrote:

Hello All,

Having had to abandon the Openlilylib (OLL) work I took over from Urs
Liska, for various reasons, in the meantime I went over to Dorico
instead of Lilypond for my work. Having spent a lot of money on Dorico
(AUD$800+) and given it my best shot for more than year, it really falls
short for the modernist work that I do, dogmatically follows the Gould
rule book and does not let you override most of that (it's what software
people call an opinionated program), crashes often with the latest
release and they cant solve it and just remain silent, and worse, the
forum which I initially thought helpful is turning out to be quite toxic
and I get a lot of personal abuse. along with deprecating comments about
the music I work on. Consequently I have binned Dorico as of yesterday
and I am coming back to lilypond.

The upshot of that is that I suppose I should revive the OLL work. I'll
recreate the dedicated server I set up, recreate the Discourse forum for
discussion, and work on the git repository, then people can
collaboratively work together again and I can take pull requests and so on.

I stalled initially a couple of years ago when I decided to totally
refactor the OLL github repostory, but now I think if we open it up
again as is and I work on that on the background which would be useful.

I'll pay for the server resources out of my own pocket, but provide a
Paypal link for donations for running costs (server, domain name, etc).

Andrew