Re: Issue 1948 in lilypond: Windows install clobbered system PATH

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On Jan 4, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Keith OHara wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:10:55 -0800, <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Comment #13 on issue 1948 by PhilEHolmes: Windows install clobbered system
>> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1948
>> 
>> OK - it looks like there is nsis code designed to delete the extra entry in
>> the path statement, but it's not working AFAICS.  I need GUB to be running
>> to test this.
> 
> The only thing I see wrong is a trailing ';' in the search for the entry, 
> which character will not be the LilyPond entry is last in the list.
> <https://github.com/janneke/gub/blob/master/nsis/lilypond.nsi#L243>
> And then again a couple lines down when computing how many characters to 
> delete, and then if LilyPond was *not* last that could leave a pair of ";;" 
> one of which could be removed.
> 
> I thought it wisest to have the installer stop touching Windows paths at all, 
> but if you and Mike and others can take the time to do better, that' would be 
> better.
> 

I'll just make it clear that I have no clue what I'm doing - I'm just throwing 
out possible solutions.

Cheers,
MS