Re: lilypond does not work with Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)

[James Lowe]

Hello,

On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:45:23 +0000, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> From: Eric Benson <address@hidden>
> Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 9:42 AM
> To: Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: lilypond does not work with Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
> 
> I could, but it is quite unreasonable to expect Lilypond users to build from 
> source code, especially having to build MacPorts from source as well. It 
> isn't very hard to do, but it does take several hours.
> 
> 
> I agree that it’s not ideal, but it’s better than saying “Sorry, you’re out 
> of luck.  There’s no way to get lilypond on Catalina.”
> 
> I think that we are going to need to move to having somebody with a Mac build 
> and provide an OSX 64-bit build for lilypond, rather than using GUB for the 
> 64-bit build.  But in the meantime, even if it is a several-hour process, it 
> is at least a process.
> 

We could also 'document' something

Somewhere here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor-big-page#other-repositories

or perhaps

somewhere here

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor-big-page#requirements

(we have some relatively long instructions for older versions of Linux here 
that would seem beyond the casual user but not for someone who is keen).

I am happy to throw up a patch if someone can give me the step-by-steps (I 
don't use Mac).

James