Re: difficulties with 1.4.5/cygwin

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"William R. Brohinsky" <address@hidden> writes:

> Urqh!
> 
> Tonight, in frustration, I upgraded python from the supported 1.5.2-2 in
> the distribution to 2.2 from the full cygwin distrib.
> 
> And now, ly2dvi works.
> 
> I'm not sure if I'm happy (well, ok, I'm elated) or upset (well,
> confused, I am!)
> 
> But it worked.

I've looked into that python supported by cygwin, but I'm not planning
to include it, as it seems to be a rather quaint mixture of
cygwin/unix and windows.  At the core, it uses windows paths and
stuff.

I think we should wait until cygwin fixes python to use unix style
paths.  Until then, I've added your suggestion to the wiki,
http://lilypond.org/wiki?TroubleshootingWindows

Greetings,
Jan.

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