Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

[Cláudia Soares]

On 2009/03/28, at 11:54, Graham Percival wrote:

> 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



That's a much better explanation. Thanks.

 I don't quite like to have all the apps shipping their own favorite  
interpreter version... Why not force a version in the path? like
#!/usr/bin/env python2.4


Nevertheless, I can work on that issue concerning the mac osx  
lilypond. I have one tiger ppc and one leopard intel, so i'll check  
compat for both OSes and architectures.

Can someone point me to the code's development branch?


Cheers,
Cláudia

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