Re: I did not previously realize that Lilypond would automatically update pre-existing scores

[Jean Abou Samra]




> Le 18 févr. 2023 à 08:31, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> a écrit :
> 
>>> It prints a thick fat warning that the LilyPond version is too old
>>> to handle this score.  It proceeds, but it returns an non-zero
>>> error code as a sign of protest :-)
>> 
>> Ahem, no?  There is only an additional warning in case the
>> compilation is already failing.
> 
> ?
> 
> ```
> wl@linux:~> lilypond grace.ly 
> GNU LilyPond 2.25.2 (running Guile 2.2)
> Processing `grace.ly'
> Parsing...
> error: program too old: 2.25.2 (file requires: 2.26)
> Interpreting music...
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Finding the ideal number of pages...
> Fitting music on 1 page...
> Drawing systems...
> Converting to `grace.pdf'...
> fatal error: failed files: "grace.ly"
> wl@linux:~> echo $?
> 1
> ```


Well, that’s what you get if the LilyPond version is too old. The question was 
for a version that is “too new”.