Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:03:58 -0700 > "Patrick McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You do raise a lot of interesting points though. I'm not the best >> person to address these concerns though. > > No he doesn't. At le

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:03:58 -0700 "Patrick McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do raise a lot of interesting points though. I'm not the best > person to address these concerns though. No he doesn't. At least, he hasn't raised any new points, nor anything that we haven't considered. 2.12

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Steve Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't get it. If you have an archive like Mutopia, where there are > thousands of files and dozens of contributors, and mixed dependencies on > versions, running conver-ly doesn't work. > > It doesn't work because two

RE: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Dunlop
> This has been discussed numerous times on the mailing list. Check the > archives. > > Handling syntax changes such as \compressMusic --> \scaleDurations are > easily handled by convert-ly, since there is no change in structure of > the input file. Simply use the following command: > > $ co

Re: Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Steve Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You have absolutely no idea how much chaos things like this cause for > people who are using Lilypond for major projects. You have absolutely > no idea how much of a problem this sort of thing is for archives like > M

Backwards compatibility: \compressMusic, \scaleDurations, WHY WHY WHY

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Dunlop
You have absolutely no idea how much chaos things like this cause for people who are using Lilypond for major projects. You have absolutely no idea how much of a problem this sort of thing is for archives like Mutopia. You have no idea how the lack of input grammar stability undermines efforts