Re: survey on multiple development versions

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 10.12.2013 18:30, schrieb SoundsFromSound:
>> For whatever it's worth, I've always used unstable builds from about 2 weeks
>> after I started using LilyPond. I began with stable, but then quickly hopped
>> on the unstables and have had zero issues with my scores.
>>
>> I love the bleeding edge, what can I say?:)  I am a risk-taker! lol
>>
> Using unstable versions of a program like LilyPond is much less a risk
> than using a GUI tool that can crash and wipe away your current work.

There was a time when people lost work using LaTeX on MSDOS in spite of
it being a batch application.

Here was the deal: the syntax to include separately includable files in
LaTeX is

\include{filename}

now sometimes people wrote

\include{filename.tex}

by mistake but that meant that auxiliary information about the file was
written to filename.tex.aux which MSDOS abbreviated to filename.tex.

Very ugly.  Very unexpected.  At some point of time, TeX engines were
changed in order to refuse writing a file under comparable
circumstances.

-- 
David Kastrup