Comment #3 on issue 3052 by [email protected]: Lilypond-book 2.16.1
fails on Windows XP and Windows 8
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3052
OK. This issue is caused by a mismatch between the Windows registry and
the option parsing code in our Python scripts. On October 13 Julien
updated GUB to put "" around the command line arguments to python. On Nov
8 he pushed a change to staging to get rid of empty strings in the command
line caused by these "" quotings. On Nov 9 I released 2.16.1 without this
change - I must _just_ have missed it. So there are a few versions of
lilypond-book (including 2.16.1) which won't run, owing to
incompatibilities between the registry and the handling of the command
line. FWIW anyone installing any version post October 13 (i.e. 2.17.5 and
upwards) will cause earlier versions of -book to fail owing to the updated
registry value.
Issue 2944 and Issue 1455 are relevant.
Not sure how to fix this though - it doesn't seem problematic enough to
release a 2.16.2?
