Thanks guys. It's for an online lilypond site so users can convert older mutopia files. So it's no a real pressing issue for me, just a 'nice to have' feature if people wanted to could go back and upgrade old mutopia stuff.
Cheers, Mike On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Thomas Morley < thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2012/10/27 Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@googlemail.com>: > > 2012/10/27 Mike Blackstock <blackstock.m...@gmail.com>: > >> 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. > > Perhaps you have more luck. > > > > Regards, > > Harm > > Forgot to mention that you could use the to-version-option of any > convert-ly > convert-ly -e -t2.14.2 > will convert to "2.14.2" > > In general, I found converting-rules in convertrules.py since version > "0.1.9" > But every now and then there will be some stuff convert-ly is not able > to handle. > > So I would use the _newest_ convert-ly and update very carefully from > one version to the next with the to-version-option fixing manually all > issues convert-ly "is not smart enough" to do. > > But I never tried to update such an old file, I wish Good Luck. > > -Harm >
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