Re: lilypond x64 and arm64 for macOS users in homebrew

[Jefferson Felix]

We now have the formula on homebrew core.

I invite macOS users (mojave or higher) with Intel or M1 processors to test
it with:
brew install lilypond

Em sáb., 2 de out. de 2021 às 23:46, Jefferson Felix <jsfelix@gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Ok, I understand, but strict homebrew core rules require me to submit a
> test that fails with guile 2 and passes with guile 1.8. In this case, we
> will use guile 2 until a more serious issue is reported.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Em sáb., 2 de out. de 2021 17:04, Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de>
> escreveu:
>
>> Am Donnerstag, dem 30.09.2021 um 18:34 -0300 schrieb Jefferson Felix:
>> > Dear developers,
>> >
>> > We have been working the last few days on homemade formulas for TeXLive
>> (
>> > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/83738) and Lilypond (
>> > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull / 85024) . The Lilypond
>> > formula relies on the TeXLive formula to build, which is practically
>> ready
>> > to be merged.
>> >
>> > With that, Lilypond 2.22 will have binary distributions for macOS
>> Catalina
>> > or higher, with x86_64 (Intel) or arm64 (M1) processors, available with
>> > command `brew install lilypond`.
>> >
>> > The problem is that homebrew core maintainers do not agree to use the
>> old
>> > and obsolete Guile 1.8 to build and run Lilypond, so the version we are
>> > using in the formula is 2.2 (which exists in homebrew).
>> >
>> > I know guile 2 is not officially supported by Lilypond, but we did a
>> lot of
>> > testing and compiled a lot of scores, with no errors. I just noticed
>> that
>> > compilation time is a little slow with Guile 2.
>> >
>> > Therefore, I would like your opinion if we can continue with Guile 2,
>> even
>> > if this homebrew distribution is not an official distribution, or if you
>> > could demonstrate, with examples, known issues in compiling sheet music
>> > with Guile 2.
>>
>> I think there should be no known issues left for compiling most
>> "standard" scores with 2.22.1 where I tried to backport all fixes that
>> landed in master up until April, and I'm not aware of any later
>> problems (#6141 only has an effect if you byte-compile, which you
>> cannot in 2.22 anyway). Slower startup time (up to two seconds) is the
>> most noticeable regression, and scores with a lot of Scheme usage (for
>> example through external libraries) are going to be problematic. See,
>> with the official binaries using Guile 1.8 and after convincing most
>> Linux distributions to stick with that older version for now, the
>> assumption is that version 2.22 of LilyPond is running with Guile 1.8.
>> So if possible, I would recommend not using Guile 2.2 until the
>> official binaries are switched over.
>>
>> Jonas
>>
>

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