Re: Question on commit c478396f Move all doc building logic to Documentation/GNUmakefile

[David Kastrup]

John Wheeler <wheelerwjx9@runbox.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Would someone please help me understand the reasoning behind removing
> the grammar from the Contributor's Guide?  Was there a licensing
> issue?

It was more of a matter of it having become comparatively uninformative
due to lots of LilyPond functionality getting moved into music
functions, and music function parsing governed to a significant degree
by actions generating synthetic tokens in addition to rules of the
grammar, making large parts of the printed grammar (which only reflects
the rules) comparatively unsuitables for figuring out what music
constructs may or may not end up being valid.

So it was more of a point of "nobody uses this anyway" in connection
with "and good luck if they tried" I think.

-- 
David Kastrup