Re: macOS 64-bit

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:16 AM Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:14 AM Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> >> You mean a stand-alone package that can be easily distributed,
>> >> right?  Since MacPorts does provide a 64bit version with the
>> >> `lilypond-devel' package.
>> >
>> > Yes, thanks for the correction.  The easiest way right now will
>> > probably be with port mdmg, but I want to see if I can do better.
>>
>> I think that the resulting bundle size of the `port mdmg' command can
>> be greatly reduced if you improve the lilypond-devel package
>> dependencies (i.e., adjusting the packages needed for building and
>> running).  Unfortunately, I don't have enough time right now to do it
>> by myself; additionally, I'm not a MacOS user at all :-)
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> Right, you mentioned that earlier.  Additionally, I want to see what
> happens if I do a non-MacPorts build.  The MacStadium environment that we
> now have access to will let me play around with this without cluttering up
> my own Mac with a lot of crap (although I *could* run a VM locally...).
>

Update: with wedding stuff, I haven’t had time to devote to this, but with
Mac OS Catalina coming out this has become more urgent, as Catalina removes
32-bit support altogether.  I’m gonna try to spend some time on this in the
next few days, and would welcome help from anyone interested.  I’ll post
info for the MacStadium environment once I set it up.

Best,
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