Nick Payne writes:

> Should the Lilypond install add the program directory to the path on
> Windows? I normally use LP on Linux, where it is in the path, but I
> just installed 2.17.6 on my notebook, which runs Windows 7 x64, and it
> isn't in the path - I can't open a command prompt and run "lilypond
> ..." without using the full path to "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond".

I have no idea....It used to be the case, I made it that way.  This was
removed from the windows installer without presenting any reason why

    commit 917dab12e7a838f1f153e7c57fb921c0b19b9bc2
    Author: Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net>
    Date:   Fri Jan 6 17:23:15 2012 +0000

        Stops Windows PATH being changed

Such messages, and this one in particular can annoy me immensly.
If I want to know WHAT happened, I look at the diff.  A commit
should give a reason WHY, and IWBN if it mentioned the bug
that was closed by the commit, with an url, too.

Jan

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