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** [issues:#5121] midi2ly: cryptic comment**
**Status:** New
**Created:** Sun Apr 16, 2017 02:40 PM UTC by Colin Campbell
**Last Updated:** Sun Apr 16, 2017 02:40 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
Conversation between Christopher Heckman and Simon Albrecht, regarding midi2ly:
>>> >>> (3) At line 677, there's a cryptic comment
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>>> urg, this will barf at meter changes
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>>> Is there a brief explanation of the problem available?
>> Well, apparently this particular code isn’t prepared to deal with meter
>> changes in the input. What exactly is unclear about that?
>>
>> Best, Simon
> First question: Is the exact problem known, or did midi2ly crash (or
> whatever -- that's another question), and someone said, "Oops, better
> not do that"? Or ... did someone recognize that the bug would occur,
> and put this here instead of trying to fix it?
I haven’t been involved in coding this at all, but to me the comment sounds
like the author saw this limitation but didn’t want to fix it right away.
> Are there meter changes where midi2ly does not crash?
That would be up to the person tackling the limitation to figure out.
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