Re: Linking 64-bit Mac builds from website

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 3:43 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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:
>
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> > > 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).


How does it feel like a third-party package?  I'm basically duplicating the
structure of the official 32-bit Mac builds, except that I'm not using GUB.


> Besides how often do you
> expect rebuilds for each release? That's hopefully one binary package
> per LilyPond release, right?
>

At least.  Ideally I'd like to also make available a "bleeding-edge" .app
build, either nightly or for each commit accepted into master.  But that's
less important than making builds available for each release, of course.


>
> >
> > 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.
>

Clarification: I meant that *GUB* is way too complicated.  I would like to
switch to a simpler build method.

>
> No, it works: https://github.com/hahnjo/lilypond-binaries/


What is that?  It has no description or README, and I cannot easily tell
what it is meant to do.


> And unless proven wrong, I think this will also work for macOS (given a
> few tweaks).
>

We *already* have something working for macOS, as I've made clear on this
list.  See https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64 and
http://gitlab.com/marnen/lilypond-mac-builder .  If you think my work can
be improved by yours, or vice versa, pull requests are welcome!

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
address@hidden
http://www.marnen.org