Re: Using .ily for included lilypond files

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:46:47PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote:
> 2009/5/16 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > In the large "DOC: Makefile" thread that nobody new is going to
> > read, there was a proposal to use .ily to indicate "setup"
> > lilypond files.
> >
> > I quite like this suggestion, so I'm asking somebody to take the
> > next step: integrate this with lilypond.
> 
> It'll be quite an invasive change, but if you're sure about it, I'll do it.

I'm not sure about it, but thanks for the offer.  :)   Hopefully
we can get more discussion about this in the next week, and go
ahead in June.

> If we do go ahead with this, I'd like to keep input/new as it is
> (relying on makelsr.py to convert the snippets), otherwise we'll end
> up with every snippet having \version "2.13.1".  This will make it
> more difficult to distinguish between development snippets and those
> ready to move to LSR once it's using 2.12.

Oh, definitely!

That said, perhaps we should wait until LSR is updated... or at
the very least, until another 2.13 release is out.  Again, the
magical date of May 28 rears its head.  Only 9 more days... :)

Cheers,
- Graham