Re: Issue 2338 in lilypond: OS X LilyPad not working

[lilypond]

Comment #9 on issue 2338 by address@hidden: OS X LilyPad not working
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2338

So we are again at square one, right?  We have some information that some  
OSX applications do not work on some (or all) OSX versions, and nobody  
knows how to move forward on this one, we have nobody who can or will take  
responsibility for OSX, and it is the only critical issue holding up the  
next stable release.

Feedback from actual OSX users takes, if we are lucky, a week to arrive  
after blind (and quite costly) best-faith efforts from non-users of the  
platform, even for trivial changes.

I really don't see how we can declare the degree to which OSX is supported  
anything other than "Good luck!".  It is somewhat comforting that the  
command line application LilyPond itself is usually not affected.  Would we  
have a better chance for being at least able to deliver LilyPond (and most  
Python utilities) if we skipped on the third-party  
applications/editors/desktop-icons and just recommended downloading and  
installing them separately?