Re: [Denemo-devel] lilypond version weirdness

[Bric]

On 10/21/2013 08:39 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 09:43 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> [...]
> > Denemo is currently outputting \version "2.16" unless you set
> > Score->Score Properties->Paper->LilyPond Version

!?!  How would one *intuit* to find it there?  Especially since other, 
higher-level menu items refer to "lilypond", whereto it would be more 
appropriate to attach.

Or is that what your "eek!" is referring to?

> > (eek!, that is some horrible old built-in thing)
> >
> > Denemo does have code for detecting the installed LilyPond version,
> > but
> > it has been disabled for a while now due to some complications (with
> > windows I would guess).
> Actually, the main complication is this: if you set the LilyPond version
> in the score properties dialog then when you open the same score a year
> or so later LilyPond will complain that the version is old. So, instead
> the default is for Denemo to output the current (stable) LilyPond
> version statement. On GNU/Linux we could pick up the actual installed
> LilyPond version and use that (and indeed, we could apply the convert-ly
> utility to the Denemo LilyPond output, code to do which is also present
> in Denemo, but lying unused).

Roger.  Thanks for the uninstall script tip for lilypond  (duh! i missed 
it earlier)

> I presume you are aware that you can specify which of your installed
> LilyPonds to use? (Via the prefs, Externals tab).

Yes. But no.  I did specify my "/usr/local/bin/lilypond" version there 
(which is 2.17.7) , but it made no difference in the *.ly file.  Anyhow, 
with my 2.16 gone, there's nothing more I can do to/with denemo about 
that... (unless I misunderstood), until denemo is coded to generate 
higher-version compatibility (requirement)