Re: Your Friendly Neighborhood LSR

[Graham Percival]

Rune Zedeler wrote:
> Graham Percival skrev:
>
> > I wouldn't be opposed to adding a
> >     % added in 2.8.6
> > comment to snippets, though.
>
> Will the original version be available somewhere, or is it lost forever 
> as soon as the convert-ly has been run?

It's lost.

> If the original is lost I do not see a need for a comment on when the 
> snippet was introduced.

When a snippet breaks, it might give hints as to what it was supposed to 
show?  If we can assume that it worked when the snippet was introduced, 
at least.

> That is true, and therefore I still think that the original version of 
> snippets should be kept - so that it as possible to reconstruct how they 
> originally looked.

Not possible in LSR.  Sorry.

> It is correct that in an ideal world snippets will 
> keep looking the same. But experience shows that severe bugs - even bugs 
> that are clearly visible in the manual - can be introduced into 
> lilypond, and stay undiscovered for quite a lot of time.

That's why we want a user to volunteer to check the regression tests. 
It takes about 15 minutes a month, but it would drastically improve the 
stability of lilypond.

Volunteers?
- Graham