Re: Could we do something to promote convert-ly?

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Folks,
>
> I am getting tired at the number of questions of the type
> "Why doesn't this work anymore?" which can be answered by
> "Just Run convert-ly! (TM)". I suspect that the effort we
> put in crafting convert-ly rules is not paying in perceived
> backwards compatibility as users don't think about running
> convert-ly, or perhaps don't even know about it. Could we
> do something to change this?
>
> Some ideas:
>
> - Mention it in release announcements,
> - Mention it in the Changes document,
> - When the score produces an error and the \version
>   statement is for a different minor version number,
>   print a warning ("compilation failed and \version
>   statement is outdated, did you update syntax with
>   convert-ly?" or something like that).
>
> Thoughts?

Different major number.  Possibly also odd major number and different
minor number, but I guess stable releases are done frequently enough
these days that it's unlikely a distribution will package an unstable
one.

I think we should very much avoid syntax changes within an even major
number.

-- 
David Kastrup