Re: issues with musicxml2ly

[Knut Petersen]

Hi Gilberto!
> > Try if replacing
> >
> >     musicxml ...
> >
> > with
> >
> >     python2 $(grep -o '"[^$^"]*$me"' `which musicxml2ly` | sed -e 's/"//g' -e 
> > 's/$me/musicxml2ly/')  ...
> Yes, that does seem to fix the issue! The .ly file created by musicxml2ly does not have the encoding and strange character issues and compiles normally. 

So edit your musicxml2ly wrapper script (the file given by 'which musicxml2ly'):

Delete lines 2, 3 and 4.
In the last line, replace

   exec "/.../python"

with

   python2


Bug 1:
Musicxml2ly is incompatible to the python2 distributed with the installers.
Musicxml2ly needs at least python2 2.7.0, lilypond installers provide python 
2.4.5

Bug 2:
During building of lilypond with GUB musicxml2ly is used intensively.
Alas, musicxml2ly does not fail because erroneously not GUB's own python 2.4.5
but the system's python2 is used.

As none of the people involved in developing, testing and building the
lilypond distributions is using a python2 < 2.7.0, nobody realized that
there is a problem for a number of years.

Knut