On Sat 23 Oct 2021 at 16:33:59 (-0700), Aaron Hill wrote: > 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.
Perhaps this is one example where drag-and-drop comes into its own, rather than double-clicking documents. You just drag the LP document onto the appropriate icon representing a specific version of LP. Do you know how that is configured, again not disturbing any preexisting association for one particular version. Cheers, David.
