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

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>>   What is expected to happen when Lilypond 2.24.1 encounters a score
>> with a version of 2.22.2 in it? Well, I'll try to carefully reproduce
>> (or not!) my experience!
>
> 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 :-)

No, it doesn't.  The warning and error is reserved for the case where
the file requests a newer version than LilyPond provides, not the other
way round.

-- 
David Kastrup