Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?

[Wim van Dommelen]

Hi Carl,

When I go to: https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64 I see three(3) builds/packages (2.19.83, 2.18.2 and 2.20.0), each with a link to a tar.gz file. Downloading, unpacking and dowloading each gives me a LilyPond.app directory with the usual files underneath it. Running this .app file is caught by the Apple security check, so I lowered my defenses temporarily by allowing this app to proceed. Btw, bottomline it downloads it from cloudfront.net. I can only assume this is safe (-(|..

(It would be nice to have a sha checksum so I can test that file indeed to be what marnen produced originally.)

Running from the Mac Applications folder then works, the example-file does a typeset, I will test more later on.

Running it as a command-line program (for make or any script wanting to compile a set of music) is yet another problem, it complains about the Python Info.plist being badly formatted, it doesn't produce the minimum "--version" output but hangs in that. Have to look into that later also... Convert.ly --version seems to run though.

But when I then browse around a little bit to get some feeling of what this platform is, whether it is something I could use, I see a button "Pricing" ($150/month?, Open Source registration in the bottom), "Sign in", "Start your free trial", etc. That gets me feel a little uncomfortable. Is this wrapping everything, where will we end?

Regards,

Wim.

On 29 May 2020, at 23:32 , Carl Sorensen <c_sorensen@byu.edu> wrote:

Wim,

I'm not sure what you mean by these things.

The links worked perfectly for me, and there was neither registration nor a charge.

Carl



On 5/29/20, 12:39 PM, "Wim van Dommelen" <mail@wimvd.nl> wrote:

Hi Karlin,

I've seen this setup. It has (at least) two problems:
- most of the links are broken, trying to do a straightforward download is almost impossible
- when I register myself, I'am to pay for this platform

Has LilyPond come so far now?, When will it be ready to be sold out and split for other people's profit?

Regards,
Wim.

On 29 May 2020, at 19:43 , Karlin High <karlinhigh@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/29/2020 11:29 AM, Wim van Dommelen wrote:

Is there somebody already working on a proper 64-bit compile of LilyPond for the new Mac OS X 10.15.4 "Catalina" version?

Yes: Marnen Laibow-Koser has produced this.

<https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64>

I haven't seen a build yet for the 2.21 series, though.
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA