Re: [GSoC] Proposal: Modular LilyPond Parser (C++)

"C. Stroppel" <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Jun 2026 08:41:24 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Community,

For documentation purposes, in case someone reads this discussion in the 
archive at some point, I wanted to close the loop by letting you know 
that I did not get a spot in the Google Summer of Code. However, I hope 
that the applicants who did get a spot will have a lot of success with 
their projects.

What are the next steps?I will continue working on the project anyway 
and am currently looking into other funding programs. The architecture 
is already almost completely clear in my head.

To summarize, here is what I took away from our discussion:
+ lexer.ll and parser.yy are sufficient specifications.
+ Nevertheless, it was suggested that the lexer could flexibly read 
lexemes and syntax from a specification.
+ Concerns were raised as to whether a parser without Guile makes sense 
at all.

I haven't been able to gauge yet whether there is actual interest in my 
project. Regardless of that, I would like to reach out to you with a few 
questions in the coming days, if that is alright with you. It will be 
better to do that under a different subject line (Questions regarding 
Specification and Lexer), though. Thank you for all the examples you 
have sent me.


Until then, best regards,

Christian