Re: another 'wrong type argument' error

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Fri, 2022-10-14 at 04:30 +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Slight clarification: the binaries are not created "automatically" by
some CI pipeline or the like, but by executing the scripts linked above
on a macOS node provided by MacStadium. But yes, testing them on a
regular basis and in a wider set of configurations would be great.

> 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.

The other point that was raised in the past was packaging as a
LilyPond.app and a .dmg that users are more familiar with. In the end,
it's "just" a special directory with some metadata files, but it needs
somebody with the appropriate knowledge and hardware to figure out what
needs to be done (if the idea is useful).

Jonas

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