Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: "Br. Samuel Springuel" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 1:44 PM
> Subject: Re: LilyPond-Book on Windows
>
>> If we had somewhat more reliable feedback from Windows users (this was
>> already released in 2.19.3, see
>> <URL:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2014-03/msg00063.html>),
>> then the quality of our releases could be better.
>
>
> I suspect that most windows users aren't using lilypond-book: partly
> because of the need to use other Unix-like programs to convert the
> TeX.  I certainly don't, and if I had a need to use lilypond-book, I'd
> do it in a Unix VM.

It's not just that: most Windows users aren't actively participating on
the lists, either.

I have asked several times on one of the lists what the result of

exit(0)

inside of the Python we deliver with Windows (?) would be.  Should not
be too hard, but no response.  It's not clear to me what version of
Python we actually deliver (and I was apparently pointed to the wrong
GUB repository for finding that out the hard way by looking at the
source).

So it would appear that we still deliver a broken version of
LilyPond-book in 2.18.2 since no Windows users are interested in it
enough that we would have gotten a report about it in the month that it
was available in the developer releases.

At the current rate, it will take half a year or longer before we get
this fixed.

-- 
David Kastrup