Re: Issue 1294 - Lyric ties

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Patrick McCarty" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: Issue 1294 - Lyric ties


> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 01:32:21PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Graham Percival
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > We have two ways of making it not a Critical issue:
> > > 1) make the output the same. If that means fiddling with the
> > >
> > > 2) metaphorically look our users in the eye and tell them that we
> > > @item Lyric ties are no longer supported.
> > >
> > > But as far as releases go, that's the story.
> >
> > It wasn't my intent to be controversial with my assessment of the
> > situation.  Sorry.
>
> Oh, I didn't take this as controversial.  And I wanted the chance
> to point out that documenting that "X is no longer supported" is a
> perfectly valid way of getting 2.14 out the door, for any X.  You
> have absolutely nothing to apologize for!
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

TBH, I'd be disappointed if this issue prevented a release of 2.14.  I think 
it's a regression, but I also think it's a minor feature, and the 
alternatives are acceptable: stick with 2.12 if you really need lyric ties; 
or update if you can live with lyric ties that look a little odd.  However, 
I do believe we shouldn't consign it to the heap of priority-high issues 
that'll never get looked at.  My guess is that Graham won't like this 
suggestion, but I'd like to accept Patrick's offer to look at this as a 
serious issue, but I don't think we should raise it as critical-release 
blocking.  If Patrick can't see a way of fixing it, we go with option 2.

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Phil Holmes