python 2.6 in GUB Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:53:04AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > David Kastrup writes:
> >
> >> So my first impulse would be to throw out the workaround for 2.4.2 that
> >
> > Let's do that.
> 
> Well, issue 1933
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1933> would
> suggest that this is a bad idea.  Nothing substantially has changed
> since then.  I'm currently trying to get the TEXINPUTS stuff integrated
> into the Mingw fix to arrive back at a working lilypond-book, but of
> course it is to be hoped that moving Python forward to 2.6 might make
> that problem go away.  But it will take longer to figure that out.

Doesn't Julien have GUB with python 2.6 ready for testing?  I
would move forward on that before diving into the dark waters of
os.popen in python 2.4.  I remember bug 1933; it was really
annoying.

Cheers,
- Graham