Re: \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration warning on LilyPond 2.25.23

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Do you think this isn't prominently enough?  If so, how could this
>> be improved?
> 
> I think that as with many warnings, the fact that it's always there
> leads to it fading into the background for many readers,
> particularly as they learn from experience that for *most* code,
> *most* of the time, convert-ly doesn't even make changes between
> versions. I also suspect that many users download and install
> without going to the changelog page at all.

But this is explicitly declared a *development* version, for good
reasons!  Users *must* expect changes, and they *must* run
`convert-ly`.

> My thought is that we often have some idea ahead of time if a
> particular change is likely to affect a lot of users. In those
> cases, I think it might be helpful to include an extra heads up note
> in the announcement email and on the download page that this
> particular development release has bigger changes than normal and
> most users should expect convert-ly to be needed.

I disagree.  I think it is unfair to put this burden on us developers
for the 2.25.xx series.  On the other hand, it is certainly useful to
explicitly add a reminder to the 2.26.0 announcement note to use
`convert-ly`.


   Werner
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