Re: Is it about time to start preparing 2.26?

Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:48:33 -0600

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I know there were a lot of opinions on the 2023 thread.

I like the grand-replace.

Carl

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on
LilyPond development <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2026-03-07 at 15:01 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> > On Thu, 2026-02-05 at 21:42 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> > > Week of March 9-12: run formatting tools, branch stable/2.26
> >
> > Ah, there's one thing I forgot: copyright years. I don't want to
> > discuss longer-term directions here, but I think lilypond --version
> > should print 2026 somewhere.
> >
> > I think there are two options:
> > 1. Only adapt user-facing strings in lily/main.cc and
> > scripts/musicxml2ly.py.
> > 2. Run a full make grand-replace, which we haven't in past three years.
>
> Relevant RFC on the mailing list in 2023:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2023-02/threads.html#00037