Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 07:09:28PM +0000, Cláudia Soares wrote:
>
> On 2009/03/26, at 14:54, John Mandereau wrote:
>
>> Graham Percival a écrit :
>>> Now, I'll admit that we have very few lilypond users on OpenServer
>>> and Unicos (WTM is Unicos, anyway?!).  And although redhat uses
>>> /bin, as long as there's a symlink it should work.
>>>
>> It sounds like there is no ideal solution, but AFAIK Python is shipped 
>> with all GUB binaries except MacOS X.
>
> I think users should be free to install their programs wherever they  
> want, if the environment knows what the logged in user wants to run.
>
> Why shouldn't I have my preferred python in PREFIX=$HOME? And other  
> users in their home dir themselves?

You can have your preferred python wherever you want.  But, as
John pointed out (I had forgotten!), lilypond-book will ignore
your python and use the python that is included in GUB.  This way,
the python scripts are executed using the python version that they
were developed / tested on.

The only problem is that we don't distribute python for OSX, and
OSX has its own issues with python.  I'm not certain /why/ we
don't ship python on OSX, but I *am* certain that it's too
complicated for me to fix at the moment.

Cheers,
- Graham