lilypond-user
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Old LilyPond versions


From: Valentin Villenave
Subject: Re: Old LilyPond versions
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:34:47 +0200

2008/4/8 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:37:16 +0200
>  "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > Thank you very much for these comments. I do think we need to talk
>  > more about this issue.
>
>  No, we most certainly do *not* need to bloody talk about this
>  issue.  We "talk" about it approximately twice a year.  We,
>  collectively, spend about 20 hours "talking" (reading/writing
>  emails on the subject).  And at the end of all that "talk",
>  absolutely nothing changes.

Graham: I believe you are actually the one who brought this debate up :-)
I understand your fear of losing time and resources in
"counterproductive-ness". But I don't think it was justified here...

You misunderstood me. I meant "we need to talk about this in the
LilyReport". Now, if you are willing to propose other topics and
contribute some articles on your own (e.g. "Why Do So Many People
Waste Their Time Doing Useless Stuff Instead Of Writing
Documentation"), you'll be welcome :-)

Besides, my initial question was not "is the conversion process
reliable enough" but "are you missing some features/engraving
rules/fonts or whatever from the old versions". Laura was answering
this precise question, and made an interesting point (almost on a
"philosophical" level, I could say), that is "what to do when your
project evolves slower than the tool you use to work on it?"

And accordingly to your conversion-pointless-debates-every-six-months
rule, I should have already seen five or six discussions like this
one; I do not remember having seen so many of these (the only one I
can remember is actually the link I gave above).

Oh and by the way, this week I tried to understand how convert-ly
worked, and submitted a proposal with a patch: I didn't get any answer
in days, until John finally noticed it. But that might very well be
what you call another counterproductive-ness thing :-(

Cheers,
Valentin




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]