Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:04:11PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2009, at 13:18, Graham Percival wrote:
>
>> That would be great!  Leopard has python 2.5.1 by default, so
>> there's no problem there.  Tiger uses 2.3.5, which does *not*
>> support lilypond-book and convert-ly.
>> (we use set(), which was introduced in python 2.4)
>
> I found page for Mac OS X, though somewhat dated (2005), which actually 
> suggests
>   #!/usr/bin/env python
>   http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/opensourcescripting.html
>
> Also, MacPorts has Python, on my system (Mac OS X 10.5.6 PPC G4):
>   $ which python
>   /opt/local/bin/python
>
>   $ /opt/local/bin/python --version
>   Python 2.5.4
>
> So users on Mac OS X 10.4 might install MacPorts and its Python, though I 
> do not know which version it has on Tiger.

That won't help, because /usr/bin/python is still 2.3.5.  Hence
the whole discussion about using /usr/bin/env, which we can't do
without a patch to GUB.

Cheers,
- Graham