Re: ancient convert rules

[Benkő Pál]

FWIW, I ran a grep on my files, and the oldest version is 2.4.4; there
are also several 2.9, 2.10 and 2.11 ones.  I admit I rarely touch old
files, but sometimes that happens.

James Lowe <pkx166h@posteo.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. aug. 30., V, 16:32):
>
> On 30/08/2020 14:38, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> > To make the story short: Can we maybe instead drop any rules older than
> > 2.12.0? Its last minor release 2.12.3 is more than 10 years ago.
>
> I don't know.
>
> While it is more than 10 years ago, I seem to recall a lot of stuff on
> Mutopia where there are LP files to use are from much older than 2010.
>
> I think at the very least we should perhaps 'flag' anything (either as a
> warning or as an error) for users that might have needed to convert
> something that we have removed because of backward compatibility if they
> tried to use such a convert-ly file. Rather than look like it has worked
> until they try to compile it with the later code and then get an error
> and open a bug report (if you see what I mean).
>
> James
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