Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

[Hans Aikema]

On 29-5-2012 23:16, Nils wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:15:31 +0200
> Marc Weber<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Musecore fails to render some specific cases when printing - but
> > exporting to lilypond seems to work in all (little) cases I tried.
> >
> > Thus for simple cases I like that combination: musescore for typing and
> > lilypond for rendering.
> AFAIK musescore dropped Lilypond export support because of a lack of interest 
> and in favour of musicXML (whatever that means, I read it somewhere on the 
> musescore twitter account or something like this).
> It may still work, but we can expect it to break a little more with each 
> Lilypond release.
>
> Nils
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Nils,

Isn't it the 'dropped lilypond import', which apparently has been 
dropped the second time recently?

http://musescore.org/en/node/14273

AFAIK they intend to keep .ly export, but refuse to do .ly import unless 
new developers want to pick up the task of fixing and maintaining the 
importer code as import would need to be able to handle the various 
changes in the lilypond source format gracefully.
The export is easier to maintain as they just write the \version in the 
.ly file and leave it up to the user to run convert-ly and modify 
anything that convert-ly can't handle itself when using a more recent 
version of Lilypond.

regards,
Hans