Re: doc branching

[Graham Percival]

On 5-Apr-06, at 5:23 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > In addition, if Erik's music streams are in place in 2.10, then users 
> > who don't want to manually upgrade syntax on old completed files have 
> > the option of using the streams (which is the whole point of them, 
> > right?)   If you look at it that way, wouldn't we be absolutely crazy 
> > to release 3.0 instead of 2.10?  :)
>
> I'm in disagreement with Erik over this, as I think that people will 
> want to upgrade their .ly files, instead of upgrading machine 
> generated files which aren't editable. Note that the  stream -> .ly 
> conversion is non-existent at present.

I'm not certain what "people" will want to do, but I would have loved 
this a few years ago.  I have literally over 50 scores, some dating 
back to 1.6 days, which I still haven't updated.  And I didn't keep 
pdfs; at the time I assumed that convert-ly would handle everything.  
Occasionally I have the urge to go back and look at a piece I wrote 
back then, but this urge is never strong enough to spend half an hour 
updating that .ly file.

> Just drop me a line when I should update lilypond.org with the latest 
> doc fixes.

2.9 has everything I'm planning on doing until the weekend.  It needs 
to be backported to 2.8, which I can't do until Thurs evening, so go 
ahead and move everything from 2.9 Documentation/user/* to 2.8.

- Graham