Re: etf2ly

[David Kastrup]

Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> So if you have been using Finale for many years, and you have payed
>> money to upgrade to the newest Finale version year after Year, you now
>> suddenly can't read your old .etf files anymore!
>>
>> Let's welcome those disappointed and angry Sibelius and Finale users
>> to our LilyPond community :-)
>
> Not too loud, please... I've experienced several times that my music
> didn't process anymore after upgrading to a newer version of
> LilyPond...

Nowadays convert-ly tends to do a pretty good job for keeping up with
incompatible changes.  Not perfect, but often astonishingly good.

> The big difference is that with FLOSS and an active community, you can
> fix the problems.

Not to mention a text-based format: whatever happens does not leave you
with a chunk of binary garbage.

-- 
David Kastrup