Re: [abcusers] dynamics

[Bryancreer]

Taral said -

>I'd also like to announce that I will be making the following amendments
>to the standard in libabc:

I'm not sure about unilateral declarations of changes to the standard but nobody from the standards committee seems to have complained.  The trouble is, you have no way of enforcing your standard on anybody.  If they don't like it, they'll ignore it.

>I'm probably going to have to provide an "abcfix" program that attempts
>to "standardize" non-compliant abc files.

I'd like to see how that handles BarFly output.

>I'm going to implement 100% of the draft standard, so I think that
>should cover a lot of bases. I'll also cover a good number of the
>abcm2ps extensions because I use them.

Do you intend to exclude all versions of V: which has no single standard?  You will come up against a lot of opposition there.

Good luck.  The abc developers community consists of a lot of people who are more committed to their own software than the broader concept of abc and are generally hostile to the concept of a standard.  This is why the standards committee set up earlier this year has failed to produce any results and appears to have completely foundered.

Bryan Creer