IIRC, the problem was not the Popen wouldn't be working on Windows. Rather, our GUB installer somehow does not include the msvcrt python module in its python build, which is needed on Windows to provide the Popen call. So, running lilypond-book fromself-compiled binaries has always been working, only the downloads from lilypond.org didn't...
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