Re: LSR status?

[Graham Percival]

That's why I suggested that we encourage people to download the
snippet database.  It comes as a tarball of the snippets (each saved
in a different file; I assume just like input/*/*.ly ).  It should be 
just as
easy to search that.

We could even make semi-official snippet collections -- instead of
simply having nightly tarballs, we could have occasional
"snippet releases".  Or just include a nightly tarball with each 
lilypond
release.

It just seems that LSR is a nicer way to maintain "tips and tricks" than
the current input/test/ .  AFAIK, nobody's really maintaining 
input/test/
(I should probably be, but I haven't looked at it in ages), and we
certainly don't get contributions from non-CVS committers.  I believe
that LSR _does_ get user contributions.  And it's certainly easier for
a user to add stuff to LSR than it is to get it into input/test/ .

If we could eliminate input/test/  while maintaining a bunch of 
greppable
snippets, would you be in favor?

Cheers,
- Graham


On 7-Jun-05, at 1:08 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> I would very much appreciate if this collection of examples was
> included in the distribution. When looking for solutions to different
> LilyPond questions, I very often start by doing
> grep xxx input/*/*.ly
> i.e. I do a search in all the Tips&Tricks and Regression Tests input
> files. I certainly know about the search facilities in LSR, but I
> still prefer using old-fashioned 'grep'.
> > Alternately, we could just remove input/test and advertise LSR more 
> > -- if a
> > user wants to download some snippets, they can do that on their own, 
> > but
> > we don't distribute "tips and tricks" with the main docs.