Re: Windows Releases

[J L]

Hi,

There are actually two major problems with what the installer is currently 
doing:
1) It used to add the lilypond path near the start of the PATH variable (but 
I think that has been changed to be at the end at one point?)
2) It forces all python scripts to be run with the python bundled with 
lilypond. This is OK if you don't have any other (native) install of python 
on your computer, but it does cause problems if you do. Apart from problems 
related to modules not being found, it also breaks scripts that are 
dependant on features only available in a version newer than the installed 
one.
3) It removes all existing entries from the right-click context menu for 
python-scripts that were there by default.

I'm not so worried about the bundled scripts not running for me, as about 
breaking the stable setup I use for everything else (namely developing/using 
some of my own scripts, building other open-source projects I'm involved 
with).

Anyways, I'll be looking into adding some sort of way to make the registry 
entries for python-interpreter becoming optional (of course, it will be on 
by default, for all the windows users who wouldn't know better). I'm 
guessing that the file that the installer is build from is called 
lilypond.nsi in the GUB/nsis/ directory (or whatever it's called in git). 
There was a git.nsi file there as well, so I'm not sure which one it is.


Regards,
J. Leung



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> As has already been stated. the Python bundled with LilyPond is
> sufficiently functional to handle all the Python scripts such as midi2ly,
> convert-ly, lilypond-book, ...
> If you find any problem with any of these scripts, please send a bug 
> report.
>
> I guess your real problem is that you have installed the native Python for 
> Windows
> package from www.python.org and that LilyPond adds its own bin\ folder in 
> front
> of that in the PATH. A solution to that would be add wrapper scripts around 
> all
> these, just as is done in the LilyPond installation package for Linux. I 
> remember
> that there were some problems with using wrapper BAT scripts in the Windows
> installation package some years ago, but if those problems only were 
> related to
> Win98, it might be worth to try a similar approach again.
>
>   /Mats

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