Re: OLL/snippets renaming (Re: Broken (?) snippets in openlilylib/snippets)

[Paul]

On 07/11/2017 10:35 AM, Urs Liska wrote:

> I would like to rename some directories and move some snippets. In
> particular the "notation-snippets" and the "input-shorthands" seem
> somewhat blurred to me. And, with the nicer syntax of \loadModule I
> would prefer shorter and less redundant names.
>
>    \loadModule snippets.lyrics.align-on-vowels
>
> is more convenient and expressive than
>
>    \loadModule snippets.notation-snippets.align-lyrics-on-vowels
>
> etc.
>
> The question is:
>
> How many people are actually using the snippets repository, and how much
> inconvenience would that be for these people. I *can* take some care
> about "deprecating" and redirecting includes, but doing this generally
> would actually make the whole thing totally convoluted. So actually I'd
> prefer a clean cut and starting over with a new and cleaner structure.
>
> Opinions? Objections?

No objections here.  Seems like a job for some kind of versioning or 
renaming of the snippets collection as a whole?  ("snippets2"?) Then you 
could preserve backwards compatibility and get your clean break.

Or... this may not be helpful... but would it work to just move the 
contents of snippets out into their own modules, deprecating the 
"snippets" grouping, but leaving it in place, as is, for now for 
backwards compatibility?  So then you'd have, say:

\loadModule lyrics.align-on-vowels

Not sure what the larger repercussions of this would be, as I haven't kept up 
with how things are organized.  Feel free to disregard.

-Paul