Re: LilyPond Mac GUI update

[Jonathan Kulp]

Patrick McCarty wrote:
> Hello LilyPond developers!
>
> Some improvements to the Mac GUI have been integrated into GUB.  You
> can find the list of changes here:
>
> http://codereview.appspot.com/88076/show
>
> Graham and I would appreciate any feedback on functionality from those
> running Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5.  The test installers can be
> found here:
>
> Intel Macs:
> http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/download/lilypond-2.13.3-0.darwin-x86.tar.bz2
>
> PPC Macs:
> http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/download/lilypond-2.13.3-0.darwin-ppc.tar.bz2
>
>
> I can report success with Mac OS X 10.5.6 (both versions).  If these
> work, Graham will roll another development release with the changes.
> Many thanks to Christian Hitz for all of the improvements!

I tried it on a PPC running 10.4.11.  Files compile fine from the 
gui or the command line. Updating syntax from the gui didn't work. 
It got hung at the point where it echoes the versions and it never 
exited.  The "stop" button was grayed out where I couldn't press 
it, too.  Maybe it was successful, since it did change the version 
number in the file, but looking at the little window it seemed 
like it didn't ever finish. Running convert-ly at command line 
worked, but only after I changed the first line of convert-ly to

  #!/usr/bin/env python

Same thing for lilypond-book.  Is there a reason not to change 
this for real in the Python scripts? Would it break something on 
Linux or Windows, for example? Before I knew how to fix it, this 
made me crazy. It exits with errors, opens Firefox and takes me to 
the Python website saying I need to install Python when I know 
very well that a current Python is already installed.  Very 
annoying...

Anything else I should try?

Jon
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