On Saturday 01 October 2005 04:54 pm, Peter Mogensen wrote: > I do not expect to be able to get nice working (and tested) Lilypond for > version 2.2 or older. > On the other hand... if people don't feel strongly about still > supporting these old versions, there's no reason for me to spend time > worrying.
I think Rosegarden's official policy is that we should support Linux kernel 0.0.1 and KDE 0.0.1 if we can possibly do so, because somebody, somewhere might still be using it. We are very loathe to break support for anything, no matter how incredibly ancient it is, when breaking support can be avoided. We probably feel this way because as soon as we code for some new feature in QT x+1, we get some whiner running Red Hat 0.0.1 who reads us the riot act for breaking everything unnecessarily. Having said that, I think Lilypond's official policy is that you should be prepared to see everything in the world turned completely upside down, and should expect to have to re-code everything along the way to keep up with whimsical new changes that render all of your old files useless until you update them (hopefully with the auto-updater, if you're lucky.) Lilypond culture seems to be one where nothing is sacred, everything is subject to change, and users are expected to do whatever necessary to keep up with the very latest version. As such, I think it's probably a waste of effort on Rosegarden's part to bother supporting anything older than the current stable version, and perhaps one old version back. I'm not sure if Chris would agree, though, and you should listen to him if he doesn't. As far as structure, we care about results. If you need to toss the thing on its head and rewrite it from the ground up, so be it. While you're at it, you might try to sort out the accidental problem which is documented in the code. The exporter is supposed to be using the new Pitch class, but the Pitch class returrns bad values in certain cases, sso we hhave the whole thingg computing evverytthing twice. (Sorry about the doubled letters.. II'm getting tired of slowinng doown to the speed thiss sttupidd keyboard can kepe upp wiith.. NNot suree WTF iss wrrong wwith myy coomputter riight nnow..) -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
