Re: Upgrading Python - why not bundle official 2.7 binaries?

[David Kastrup]

Ben Rudiak-Gould <address@hidden> writes:

> On Windows and OS X, I mean; on Linux and FreeBSD I think you could
> just demand installation of the appropriate packages.
>
> I don't understand what's so unusual about LilyPond's use of Python
> that it requires a custom build.

Nothing unusual.  Neither is there anything unusual about LilyPond's use
of Ghostscript.  Or GUILE.  Or the Bourne shell.  Or about half a dozen
other dependencies.

Leave all of them out from our LilyPond distribution, and the user base
on Windows will drop to 5%, while the number of bug reports stays about
the same.  Except that they will usually not be the fault of LilyPond,
and it will require a lot of work to figure out just where things went
wrong, since everybody's environment is different.

-- 
David Kastrup