Re: Linking 64-bit Mac builds from website

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2020, 15:23 -0400 schrieb Marnen Laibow-Koser:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:38 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2020, 14:23 -0400 schrieb Marnen Laibow-Koser:
> 
> [...]
> > > 
> > > The idea I have:
> > > 1. Every tag, or even every Git commit, automatically triggers a build.
> > > 2. The completed build is automatically pushed to some download server.
> > > 3. The website automatically provides a link to the completed build.
> > > 
> > > Right now I already have a usable Makefile and build environment; I just
> > > need get some final kinks out and automate step 1 with GitLab CI or
> > > similar.  Once that happens, if we can automate steps 2 and 3 as well, we
> > > will have a fully automatic pipeline for the 64-bit Mac builds.  I don’t
> > > want any human (including myself) to be a single point of failure in the
> > > pipeline.
> > 
> > It might be worth holding off this level of automation for a bit. 
> 
> Why?  It’s common and (in the general case) easy to do with modern CI/CD 
> infrastructure.  Besides, if we don’t do it, then the 64-bit Mac builds will 
> be less generally available, and that will negate the point of all my work on 
> them. 

I'm not saying that you shouldn't upload it (even though it kind of
feels like a third party package right now). Besides how often do you
expect rebuilds for each release? That's hopefully one binary package
per LilyPond release, right?

> 
> Or are you suggesting another way to make the builds generally available?  If 
> so, what?  Right now I’m manually uploading them to Bintray, which isn’t 
> sustainable (although I *could* automate that through their API). 
> 
> 
> > I
> > hope we can switch all platforms away from GUB, 
> 
> I do too.  It’s a good idea in theory, but *way* too complicated. 

No, it works: https://github.com/hahnjo/lilypond-binaries/
And unless proven wrong, I think this will also work for macOS (given a
few tweaks).

There hasn't been a thread on lilypond-devel about this yet because I'm
waiting for 2.21.0 which we'll do with GUB.

Jonas

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