The installer in current CVS should not have this problem with Python, and if it still does, I will fix it.

Here are some reasons for Python:

-- Many more people know how to write Python than Lisp.
-- There is no Lisp family of opcodes, but there is a Python family of opcodes.
-- There is no Lisp interface to CsoundAC, but there is a Python interface to CsoundAC.
-- There is one and only one version of Python with extensive libraries that almost always work, there are many semi-compatible versions of Lisp with semi-extensive libraries that often work.
-- Python is consistent with the trend in Csound to support multiple languages, interfaces, and uses.

Regards,
Mike



-----Original Message-----
>From: jpff 
>Sent: Jun 3, 2008 7:03 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Cc: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Csound 5.8 hangs on exit in Win XP
>
>I d/loaded Csound5.08.2-gnu-win32-d.exe from Sourceforge onto a
>Windows machine which does not have Csound.  It failed to install as
>it claimed I needed some version of python otherwise I would not be
>able to use python facilities -- that is Ok by me as i do not know or
>use python.  It then exited the installer.  No time to search for
>python and install that.  Will try again this evening if still awake
>and no one else has fixed this.
>
>But why must one have python?  No piece I have or have written uses
>it.  I am very happy with C and Lisp.
>
>==John ffitch
>
>
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