Re: lilypond-book.py can hang on Windows 10; I know why; I need help to fix it

[David Nalesnik]

Dan,

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:47 PM Daniel Connors <dpconnors@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> A simple fix is to add these two lines of code to book_latex.py just before 
> the temporary file is created, just after line 205:
>
> if(sys.platform == 'win32'):
>         tempfile.tempdir = 'C:/Temp'
>
> If lilypond-book.py is running on a Windows platform, create the temporary 
> file in C:/Temp.  Then we don't have to worry about the length of the user_id 
> and this getting mangled with a '~'.
>
> Dan

You might want to copy this to the development list.

Best,
David