On Wed, 2023-01-04 at 12:52 +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Regarding versioning: the 1.x to 2.x transition was motivated by > radical syntax changes that necessitated converting and 'manually' > verifying the .ly files. Since Cairo vs. Ghostscript doesn't affect > the semantics of .ly files, I think we can continue the 2.x version > number. As a practical example, page layout was introduced in 2.4, and > direct to PostScript only became default in 2.6; both changes are much > more invasive than what we are discussing here.
Regardless of what has been done in prior versions, it seems to me the cleanest solution still is to remove a number of markup commands that we cannot or do not want to support with Cairo. We know some are used in existing libraries and scores, so this constitutes a breaking change. What exactly is your argument for *not* going to version 3.x in that case?
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