Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

[Carl Sorensen]

Andrew,

On 12/7/16 2:49 AM, "Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden> wrote:

>I have offered on more than one occasion on the list to do the Python
>port. I have been knocked back, to be more accurate, strongly
>discouraged, each time. As somebody with over forty years of software
>development experience, I have the skills required, but not only that I
>have the time and the motivation, and the inclination to help. I have
>maintained for a long time that a Python upgrade is valuable, especially
>after not having a current version of Python prevented me from doing some
>task quite some time ago (I no longer remember which! But no matter.). I
>am perfectly aware that the outcome of the work is Œnothing changes¹ ­
>but this is not the point. It provides the way forward for lilypond to
>keep current with Python. I currently have the time and energy to do this
>work. Is there anybody at all who would support this idea? Surely this
>has to be done at some point in time. Why not now? After all, we are
>attacking the guile 2 matter currently, and similar arguments have been
>made against doing that in the past.

The proper place to have this discussion is on the -devel list, not the
-user list.  I say this not as a complaint, but as a help.

If you'd like to update python, by all means have a go at it!  We always
welcome changes from people who have something they want to do and do it
well.

We wouldn't be excited about having somebody say "you ought to change to
Python 2.7", but I'd personally be happy to have somebody say "I'm willing
to change to Python 2.7".  It will be a big job, but if you're up for it,
great!

I'm looking forward to your contributions!

Thanks,

Carl

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