Re: What is the oldest convert-ly available?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-10-27 01:39, Thomas Morley wrote:
> 2012/10/27 Mike Blackstock <address@hidden>:
> > There are  a few things on Mutopia I would like to upgrade, one of which is
> > version 1.7
> >
> > I visited http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/ and the earliest
> > version there is 2.8.8, from 2006. I'm guessing that it will convert
> > versions back to somewhere around version 2.0.
> >
> > Is that about right? Anything before 2.0 is more-or-less non-convertible?
> >
> > Thanks for any confirmations/additional info.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> you could try to install an old version to be found here:
> http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/source/
>
> I recently tried to compile 2.6.x trying to do some research, but I failed.

Actually, if you just want to convert an old file and use it with a new 
lilypond version, you don't need to install any old version. convert-ly 
has conversion rules running back to 0.x versions of lilypond. So you 
can just take the convert-ly of your current 2.14 or 2.16 installation.

Now, that doesn't mean that all required changes can be done 
automatically by convert-ly, but at least it will do all that can be 
done, and usually tell you about what you need to manually do.

So I suppose, you'll still need quite some time to manually adjust what 
cannot be cone automatically.

Cheers,
Reinhold


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