Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-14 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:40 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > It is not really new, but I keep being surprised at the things > proprietary/commercial software vendors are getting away with doing to > their paying customers. Vendors have your existing scores as hostages to keep you paying. It's the opp

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
Lucas Gonze writes: >> Lucas Gonze writes: >> >>> I made the same switch and am happy about it. I'm not as fast with >>> Lilypond yet, but am getting there. >>> >>> I especially like that that my scores won't become uneditable whenever >>> I stop buying upgrades from Sibelius. > > > On Tue, Aug

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-14 Thread Francisco Vila
El 14/08/2012 21:21, "Lucas Gonze" escribió: > > > Lucas Gonze writes: > > > >> I made the same switch and am happy about it. I'm not as fast with > >> Lilypond yet, but am getting there. > >> > >> I especially like that that my scores won't become uneditable whenever > >> I stop buying upgrades

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-14 Thread Lucas Gonze
> Lucas Gonze writes: > >> I made the same switch and am happy about it. I'm not as fast with >> Lilypond yet, but am getting there. >> >> I especially like that that my scores won't become uneditable whenever >> I stop buying upgrades from Sibelius. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, David Kastr

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
Lucas Gonze writes: > I made the same switch and am happy about it. I'm not as fast with > Lilypond yet, but am getting there. > > I especially like that that my scores won't become uneditable whenever > I stop buying upgrades from Sibelius. How would that happen? I would imagine that if you ke

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-14 Thread Lucas Gonze
I made the same switch and am happy about it. I'm not as fast with Lilypond yet, but am getting there. I especially like that that my scores won't become uneditable whenever I stop buying upgrades from Sibelius. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Michael Rivers > I'm a current Sibelius user who fo

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Rivers
I know this topic changed from Sibelius going belly up to parallelization, but I don't know where else to put it... I'm a current Sibelius user who found Lilypond after panicking a little and a doing quick web search for open source notation software. I don't know how many other users may check ou

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:18 PM, David Kastrup wrote: I believe it would be a compilable file. >>> >>> >>> Useful to know, thank you! >>> >>> ... but I think it emphasizes my real point: this puts the onus on the user >>> to split up a project into independently-compilable units. I think th

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling > wrote: What counts as a "chunk" for the -djob-count option? It's not clear from the 2.15 usage manual. >>> >>> >>> I believe it would be a compilable file. >> >> >> Useful to know, thank you! >>

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: >>> What counts as a "chunk" for the -djob-count option? It's not clear from >>> the >>> 2.15 usage manual. >> >> >> I believe it would be a compilable file. > > > Useful to know, thank you! > > ... but I think it emphasizes my real

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread David Kastrup
"m...@mikesolomon.org" writes: > On 11 août 2012, at 15:16, Graham Percival wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: >>> ... but I think it emphasizes my real point: this puts the onus on >>> the user to split up a project into independently-compilable

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 11 août 2012, at 15:16, Graham Percival wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: >> ... but I think it emphasizes my real point: this puts the onus on >> the user to split up a project into independently-compilable units. >> I think that it's worth havi

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > ... but I think it emphasizes my real point: this puts the onus on > the user to split up a project into independently-compilable units. > I think that it's worth having Lilypond try and automatically > identify independent

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread David Kastrup
Gilles Sadowski writes: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: >> On 10/08/12 15:08, Phil Holmes wrote: >> >- Original Message - From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" >> > >> >>What counts as a "chunk" for the -djob-count option? It's not >> >> clear from th

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread Gilles Sadowski
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 10/08/12 15:08, Phil Holmes wrote: > >- Original Message - From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" > > > >>What counts as a "chunk" for the -djob-count option? It's not clear from > >>the > >>2.15 usage manual. > > > >I

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-11 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/08/12 15:08, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" What counts as a "chunk" for the -djob-count option? It's not clear from the 2.15 usage manual. I believe it would be a compilable file. Useful to know, thank you! ... but I think it emphasi

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: ; ; "Han-Wen Nienhuys" Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 2:55 PM Subject: Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown] On 10/08/12 14:31, Phil Ho

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/08/12 14:31, Phil Holmes wrote: If you could break it up into 8 chunks, you could use all 8 cores in a quad core system using -djob-count. No need to use make. What counts as a "chunk" for the -djob-count option? It's not clear from the 2.15 usage manual.

Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

2012-08-10 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" To: Cc: ; "Han-Wen Nienhuys" Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:46 AM Subject: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown] Yes, but the problem that you have there is that it requires the user to separat