Re: Lilypond Syntax Development and 3.0

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Monday, July 27, 2009 11:22 AM
> Lilypond Syntax Development   (tentative name)
>
> However, I think we now have a critical mass of interested users,
> experience with the syntax, and developers.  I therefore propose
> to have a Grand Project devoted to stabilizing the lilypond input
> format.

The time is right for this.  I'd like to help.

> - We're going to have lots and lots of emails flying around.  They
>  don't really fit into either -devel or -user, so we'll use a
>  mailist on lilynet.net.  Maybe the already-created proposals
>  mailist, maybe a address@hidden mailist.
>
> - I could be convinced to use the lilynet wiki for this project,
>  although we'd need account-locked pages, and it would increase
>  my workload.

No, stick to a simple maillist.


> CRESCENDO
>
> Reinhold and Frederick: as you may have guessed, I'm proposing
> that your patch waits until 3.0.  Anything requiring such manual
> tweaks will make some people very unhappy, such as mutopia.
>
> This also serves as test of developers: we've avoided getting
> "pinned down" with the input syntax because that would limit
> development.  How do you two feel about your hard work on the \cr
> stuff being delayed by up to a year?  I don't like asking this,
> but I think there are solid reasons for it.

This would be a pity.  I've now forgotten the
details of the cr changes, but cannot a way be
found to introduce the new versions now while
retaining the deprecated versions until 3.0?
Even a partial introduction now would help users.

> - Graham

Trevor