Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12

[Trevor Daniels]

John Mandereau Monday, September 22, 2008 12:02 AM

> On 2008/09/20 18:49 -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
> > Forgot something: we should probably add warnings in the docs (or the
> > download page) about the sorry state of OSX.
>
> > 10.4 and 10.3: broken lilypond-book and convert-ly.  The broken
> > convert-ly is particularly unfortunate given the syntax changes between
> > 2.10 and 2.12.
>
> These Python scripts require Python 2.4, which is not provided in 10.3
> and 10.4; ideally we should cross-compile Python and ship it in GUB
> binaries, but it could be a nightmare to make it possible (I cannot even
> compile current GUB right now, so I'm far from being able to do this
> within one or 2 weeks).
>
> The only solution on short term is asking users to install Python 2.4 or
> 2.5 manually; IIRC Python scripts and/or their wrappers also need to be
> edited to make them call the right Python, don't they?

Do we -really- want to issue a new stable release
containing masses of syntax changes with a broken
convert-ly for many Mac users?

I think that would be a mistake.

> Cheers,
> John

Trevor