Re: Lilypond Python on Windows

[Sven Axelsson]

On 17/11/05, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sven Axelsson writes:
>
> > Really? I have never seen a version that doesn't work with double
> > quotes around the full path.
>
> See this
>
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-06/msg00086.html
>
> and other threads with windows programmer Russ Jorgensen.  We had
> generated BAT files for everything, and it just did not work on all
> windows versions.

OK. Those are long threads dealing with many different issues. Not
that I want to beat a dead horse, but looking quickly at some of the
things dealt with I can see that there seems to be a mix of forward
and backward slashes in many of the paths. Forward slashes does work
(sometimes) in paths on NT based Windows, but not at all in the
others. Also I spotted things like

PATH="c:\path1\;c:\path2\"

That will not work, since Win will see only one path component. It must be

PATH="c:\path1\";"c:\path2\"

if quotes are used at all.

I guess some of those problems could be put to rest if the installer
used short names everywhere on DOS based windows.

And apart from all of that, does Lilypond *really* work on Win95 and
it's cousins?

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Sven Axelsson