On 2021-10-23 3:58 pm, Kira Garvie wrote:
What I was told is that there are some features on the back-end of the
program that turns the Lilypond scores into manipulatable scores for
the
company that doesn't play well with some of the newer updates to
Lilypond.
So I can have more than one Lilypond program downloaded, my computer
won't
care?
The only issues would be if the installer modifies global or shared
aspects of the OS environment.
On Windows, for instance, only one version of LilyPond can be associated
with .ly files at a time. The most recently installed version would
trump priors, unless you specifically disable file association during
installation. If you never double-click .ly files to compile them, then
none of this matters. If you do, then you would need to be careful when
installing other versions to preserve the existing association. And
should the association get altered, you would need to manually
re-associate with the desired version.
-- Aaron Hill
