#5121 midi2ly: cryptic comment

[Colin Campbell]

Conversation between Christopher Heckman and Simon Albrecht, regarding midi2ly:

(3) At line 677, there's a cryptic comment

urg, this will barf at meter changes

Is there a brief explanation of the problem available?
Well, apparently this particular code isn’t prepared to deal with meter
changes in the input. What exactly is unclear about that?

Best, Simon
First question: Is the exact problem known, or did midi2ly crash (or
whatever -- that's another question), and someone said, "Oops, better
not do that"? Or ... did someone recognize that the bug would occur,
and put this here instead of trying to fix it?

I haven’t been involved in coding this at all, but to me the comment sounds like the author saw this limitation but didn’t want to fix it right away.

Are there meter changes where midi2ly does not crash?

That would be up to the person tackling the limitation to figure out.