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Re: Dealing with Deprecation (Was Re: Vertical spacing: Was between-syst
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Graham Percival |
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Re: Dealing with Deprecation (Was Re: Vertical spacing: Was between-system-space deprecated?) |
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Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:19:38 +0100 |
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 04:25:54PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
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> Does such a large revision of syntax where keywords are deprecated
> happen often? How do people who have large collections of lilypond
> scores deal with this?
This is indeed a problem. The developers are currently discussing
a proposal to define certain portions of the input as "stable"
(not changing) in order to lessen this problem. However, that
solution is years away from stabilizing things like vertical
spacing.
Past discussion here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-07/msg00639.html
Updated proposal:
http://lilypond.org/~graham/gop/gop_4.html
(just sent to the -devel list a few minutes ago)
- Graham