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

[James]

hello,

On 6 January 2012 11:23,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:14:34 +0000, Graham Percival wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:21:19AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> We'd need to be careful over that.  Think it's no problem from a
>>> pure Lilypond perspective - I'd doubt many windows users would run
>>> lily from the command line.  However, I believe they would run -book
>>> from the command line, and that needs to find the python module in
>>> the path statement, I think.
>>
>>
>> Good point!  Does anybody feel like checking into this?
>>
>> I still think it's best to just explain which directories need to
>> be in the PATH rather than modifying it ourselves, but we'll need
>> to know this information when it comes time to write that
>> documentation.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Graham
>
>
> I think that all you need is:
>
> PATH_TO_LILYPOND\usr\bin
>
> In most set-ups this'd be:
>
> C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin
>
> Cheers,
> MS
>

Yes this is the default. The installer lets you choose the location,
but Windows' users will be used to the 'C:\Program
Files\LilyPond\usr\bin' nomenclature.

I'd say 99% of all users will use the default path, and those that
choose to move it will know that they need to adjust their PATH
accordingly.

If you look here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/usage/lilypond_002dbook

It links to Command Line Usage  which says if you use mac then you
need to go here

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/web/macos-x

and so we can make a similar entry in Usage and point them to

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/web/windows

! which is what we've had all along - we just never linked to it from
Usage like we do Mac OS X.

Voila!

I can do that.

Just let me know if that is the route we are going down now.


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James