Re: Re: (non-bug) lilypond-book & secondary source files

Thank you- good points, RE backups and copyrights.

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> 3. copyright date (Cameron Crowe)
> 4. Re: copyright date (Ruud Harmsen)
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> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 17:50:28 +0000
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> Just a thought--not a bug.
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> lilypond-book refuses to overwrite a main source file, but happily overwrites secondary source files included into the main source file. Irritating if you use the .tex extension for included chapters of a musicological document and even just accidentally call lilypond-book without specifying a separate output dir.
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> "Don't do that." and "Version control!" would be perfectly good responses, and I probably have a few other minor (shrug-worth?) points if there is interest in hearing them.
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> In any case, I'm hugely fond of LP. Truly, thank you, devs and other contributors!
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> - Cam
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> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 19:04:33 +0100
> From: David Kastrup [email protected]
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> Subject: Re: (non-bug) lilypond-book & secondary source files
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> Cameron Crowe via bug-lilypond [email protected] writes:
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> > Just a thought--not a bug.
> > 
> > lilypond-book refuses to overwrite a main source file, but happily
> > overwrites secondary source files included into the main source
> > file. Irritating if you use the .tex extension for included chapters
> > of a musicological document and even just accidentally call
> > lilypond-book without specifying a separate output dir.
> > 
> > "Don't do that." and "Version control!" would be perfectly good
> > responses,
> 
> 
> Version control is not a substitute for backups.
> 
> > and I probably have a few other minor (shrug-worth?) points if there
> > is interest in hearing them.
> 
> 
> Just anecdotally: on MSDOS file systems, writing a file whatever.tex.aux
> was equivalent to writing a file whatever.tex and when writing
> \include{something} in a LaTeX file, this caused a file something.aux to
> be created/written.
> 
> This made the punishment for writing \include{something.tex} instead of
> the correct \include{something} pretty severe (until MikTeX was made to
> detect this special case and refuse the operation).
> 
> --
> David Kastrup
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 21:01:14 +0000
> From: Cameron Crowe [email protected]
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> Subject: copyright date
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> I think the copyright is out of date for versions 2.24 and 2.25
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> GNU LilyPond 2.24.3 (running Guile 2.2)
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> Han-Wen Nienhuys [email protected]
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> Jan Nieuwenhuizen [email protected]
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> and others.
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> GNU LilyPond 2.25.13 (running Guile 3.0)
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> Copyright (c) 1996--2023 by
> Han-Wen Nienhuys [email protected]
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> Jan Nieuwenhuizen [email protected]
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> and others.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 10:25:58 +0100
> From: Ruud Harmsen [email protected]
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> Subject: Re: copyright date
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> 10:01 PM 3/2/2024, Cameron Crowe via bug-lilypond:
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> > I think the copyright is out of date for versions 2.24 and 2.25
> > GNU LilyPond 2.24.3 (running Guile 2.2) Copyright (c) 1996--2023
> > by Han-Wen Nienhuys [email protected] Jan Nieuwenhuizen
> > [email protected] and others. GNU LilyPond 2.25.13 (running
> > Guile 3.0) Copyright (c) 1996--2023 by Han-Wen Nienhuys
> > [email protected] Jan Nieuwenhuizen [email protected] and others.
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> 
> By the way, dating a copyright to make it valid was only required
> by US law, not elsewhere, and even in the US that requirement was
> abolished in I think it was 1970. Nowadays the copyright exists
> even without any copyright notice, dated or not. What is required
> is a maker, and creative content.
> 
> --
> Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com
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