Re: lilypond v2.13.54

[Phil Holmes]

"James Lowe" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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hello,


On 17 Mar 2011, at 17:53, "-Eluze" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Phil Holmes-2 wrote:
> > "-Eluze" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> > news:address@hidden
> > > Phil Holmes-2 wrote:
> > > > I've rechecked my system and found an odd feature.  Lilypond 13.54 is 
> > > > in
> > > > the
> > > > PATH shown in the Windows System Properties Environment Variables.  But
> > > > it's
> > > > not there if I type PATH in a command window!  Could you check what 
> > > > your
> > > > system has?
> > >
> > > it's in both!
> >
> >
> > Did you uninstall the previous versions before installing LP, or modify
> > the
> > PATH?  I'm just wondering whether the install checks whether a work like
> > "lilypond" is already in the path, and doesn't do an update if it exists?
> this time i uninstalled - usually i just delete or move the latest version
> to an external drive - then i cleaned the path (8 times c:\program
> files\lilypond\usr\bin) and then i installed lilypond (without creating a
> shortcut) - and the path was ok again, i.e. with 1 lilypond record.
>
> lilypond certainly does not check the path or clean up when installing or
> uninstalling.

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The installer must do something. Else you'd either never have LilyPond in 
you PATH or you'd have dozens of them as it concatenated the PATH every time 
you installed new.

@Ming Can you tell us if you run add/remove programs before you install a 
later version? and if so what version did you have installed before 2.13.54?

James

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If you don't uninstall, it does appear simply to add the latest path to your 
path variable.  I ended up unable to run things like PING from my command 
line, and found it was because there were so many lilypond paths that the 
PATH variable had overflowed.


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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad


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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad