Re: [Enhancement] Update syntax automatically

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> 2010/2/19 Dénes Harmath <address@hidden>:
>   
> > There should be an option in lilypond to invoke convert-ly on the files before
> > compiling. This way, the user doesn't have to care with updating the syntax of
> > her files manually; when updating LilyPond, files will be up to date
> > automatically when compiled.
> >     
>
> convert-ly is not sufficiently automatic / foolproof to be worth doing
> this.  Feel free to write a script that runs convert-ly -e before
> calling lilypond, but this will not be added to the LilyPond project
> itself.
>   
Also, since the main LilyPond programmers work primarily with UNIX, they 
follow the UNIX paradigm of letting separate programs be responsible for 
separate tasks. As Graham said, combining the two into a single command 
is easily done using a script or could be included as an option into a 
"development environment" (such as LilypondTool, or the LilyPond mode of 
editors like Emacs or VIM).
Finally, I see several risks of confusions when using such an option. If 
it did "convert-ly -e", then the file would have to be reloaded in the 
text editor, manually or automatically depending on what editor you use. 
If it instead kept the original file and let LilyPond process a 
temporary copy with updated syntax, then the warning/error messages 
would not point to relevant lines in the original file.

 /Mats

  /Mats
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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