I am going  to look at the Windows scripts and doing some cross compiling
with C++ 11 to see if it can be made to work with cmake 2.x when I have
some time
On Dec 16, 2015 5:56 AM, "Thijs van severen" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> hi Sacha !
>
> Sorry for the late reply :-S
> We are always open to new ideas and features and adding lilypond support
> sounds like a very nice feature !
>
> Concerning the C++11/14 question : i'm going to leave this to the experts
>
> If you havent already done so i suggest you have a look at the wiki to get
> started, and feel free to ask questions via this list
> i'm working on a 'how to contribute to hydrogen using github' page
> <https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/wiki/How-to-contribute-code-using-Github>,
> but it's not quite done yet : i need to add in the part about creating a
> branch for your specific feature (makes merging sooo much easier)
>
> 1 thing you will probably have to be careful about is the fact that
> hydrogen uses the 'position' of an instrument in the drumkit to determine
> the (midi) note and that there are very few (if any) 100% GM-compliant
> drumkits available in hydrogen
> so i guess that this will be crucial in generating a correct score
>
>
> Welcome to the project and keep us posted !
> Grtz
> Thijs
>
> 2015-12-12 1:42 GMT+01:00 Sacha Delanoue <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My name is Sacha, and I am a C++ developer in video game company. I am
>> also a drummer and I like to use Hydrogen to make close-enough base of
>> what I’m playing, so that my musicians can start recording. I also like
>> to make charts, as they are beautiful and handy.
>>
>> Since I have to write down my drum parts in Hydrogen, I do not want to
>> redo all the work to generate my chart, so I would like to add a new
>> feature to Hydrogen: export into LilyPond format. LilyPond is a famous
>> free (GPL) software for generating PDF charts out of its text format.
>>
>> I did some research, and I was not the only want to want this. The best
>> I found was a Hydrogen forum post talking of a perl script kind of doing
>> the job, and a github repository I was not able to make work. So I
>> though I would just add the feature myself.
>>
>>
>> My first question would be: am I right to assume that this is a “wanted”
>> feature? By “wanted” I do not talk about popularity (I am not seeking
>> popularity here), but I do not want to integrate this feature and then
>> being rejected because for some reason someone would not want it to be
>> part of the Hydrogen software. I would not see any reason why though, I
>> would be only a few hundred lines of code, without any additional
>> dependencies, and it is already a feature in kind of similar softwares
>> like Rosegarden.
>> I guess this conversion could be implemented as a side-project, parsing
>> the h2song on its own, but I think it would be better directly
>> integrated to the software.
>>
>>
>> I already started to dive into the code, found where I would have to add
>> my classes, and with which objects interact. I do not anticipate any
>> huge difficulty for now, and I expect to complete the task soon,
>> provided I have enough free time.
>>
>> I have one code question for now. I’m used to work with c++11 (c++14 to
>> be precise), and it is really handy. It is starting to be well used now
>> and every compiler that I know of support it. Since the last release of
>> G++, it is even the default mode! I’ve seen that on github, on pull
>> request #263, someone ask to merge c++11 support. My question is, can I
>> code in c++11 or do you refuse, for some reason, to have c++11 support.
>> I personally definitely think that c++11 is the way to go, but I can
>> hardly make this decision for you.
>>
>>
>> I hope I did not mix to much things in this mail. I created a post in
>> the forum a few days ago (which is not yet accepted I think) but then I
>> realized that on the contributing guide, this mailing list seemed to be
>> where I should post.
>>
>> Thank you all for contributing to Hydrogen,
>>
>> --
>> Sacha “Shaac” Delanoue
>>
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