Re: \version statement

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 20 March 2006 18.13, Laura Conrad wrote:
> abc2ly puts a version statement into its output files:
>
>        \version "2.5.20"
>
> By design this trails the lilypond version, and is changed only when
> abc2ly has been thoroughly tested with the current version.
>
> However, when you run a file with an obsolete version through 2.7.39,
> you get the following error messages:
>
> Parsing...
> error: Incorrect lilypond version: 2.5.20 (2.7.38, 2.7.39)
> error: Consider updating the input with the convert-ly script
> warning: identifier name is a keyword: `book'
> score.ly: 0: warning: no \version statement found,  add
>
> \version "2.7.39"
>
> for future compatibility
>
> The first error is ok, although it might confuse someone about whether
> they're running the correct version of abc2ly, but the one about "no
> \version statement found" is both incorrect and confusing.

By the way: Is there any particular reason why lily no longer wants to compile 
files older than .38? Most 2.4 files do still work with .39, and I fail to 
see why the recent convert-ly rules would have any special impact on backward 
compatibility.

-- 
Erik