Re: abc2ly on Windows XP

[Mats Bengtsson]

Dewdman42 wrote:

> well, when running from the same directory as lilypond..why does python need
> a complete path when the script is right there in the same directory?  What
> you're saying is that python does not look in the current directory...that
> it can rather only accept explicit full pathnames for script names..which
> seems irregular if you ask me.
>
>  
Agreed! Sorry, it's late here.

  /Mats

> I believe all of this issue could be solved for windows by simply shipping
> some BAT wrapper scripts that can be used, such as music2xml.bat which will
> then call python with the complete script path...or find the script using
> the PATH variable or some such thing..  I am not a guru of Python yet.  Does
> Python not possess some env variables for where python scripts are located
> or something similar?  Certainly there must be a better mechanism than that
> is currently shipping with lilypond for windows.
>  

Search the mailing list archives to learn about some of the
failing attempts to do BAT scripts in the past.


   /Mats