Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> So you checked all of LilyPond's dependencies and can guarantee
>> that it will stay like this forever?
> 
> I am on Big Sur (11.6) and I can still choose 10.9 as a deployment
> target.  [...]

>> I'm not going to work on anything. I have been alone trying to get
>> a build for macOS even though I don't even use Apple hardware and
>> other core developers do. It will take somebody willing to work on
>> this effort *and commit to maintaining it* because I don't think
>> it's a good idea to release something half-working.
> 
> In the spirit of my first comments in this email I’ll directly ask
> if the project needs help testing or working on the Mac build system
> at all?

Yes, we need help – namely for taking *permanent* care of the MacOS
releases in

  https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases

that have been built with the scripts in

  https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/tree/master/release

With 'permanent' I mean that the automatically created and released
binaries should be regularly tested on actual Mac hardware to check
whether they work as expected.  Jonas's fear is too real that some day
deployment support for older OS versions will break out of the blue,
unfortunately.

As Jonas writes: He isn't a MacOS users, and none of us main
developers is either.  It was a heroic effort of him to set up the
scripts, but details like handling deployment targets to make this
work on older MacOS versions needs a dedicated specialist.


    Werner