Re: LilyPond build for windows?

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Sonntag, den 21.06.2020, 13:35 +0200 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:07 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 20.06.2020, 20:25 +0200 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> > > What is the status of our lilypond binary on windows?
> > > 
> > > The GUB based binary used to include a hacked-together Python
> > > interpreter, which -due to being cross-compiled- had some serious
> > > limitations. Is this still the binary we recommend to use ?
> > 
> > Starting from 2.21.0, GUB uses the embeddable package for Python:
> > https://docs.python.org/3.8/using/windows.html#the-embeddable-package
> > 
> > This is official, so no "limitations" from our side.
> 
> awesome. I assume that subprocess works normally on windows, so we can get rid
> of the hack in lilylib.py

I have no idea. I was satisfied after testing that it worked equally
well as before 😉 (not using Windows in production since I-don't-know)

Jonas

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