On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:08:27PM +0000, Cláudia Soares wrote: > > On 2009/03/28, at 11:54, Graham Percival wrote: > >> The only problem is that we don't distribute python for OSX, and >> OSX has its own issues with python. I'm not certain /why/ we >> don't ship python on OSX, but I *am* certain that it's too >> complicated for me to fix at the moment. > > That's a much better explanation. Thanks. > > I don't quite like to have all the apps shipping their own favorite > interpreter version... Why not force a version in the path? like > #!/usr/bin/env python2.4
That's fine, as long as everybody has python installed. Now, I'd be surprised[1] if we found any desktop Linux machines without python... but there's no guarantees that everybody has the python version we want. For example, this Debian Lenny laptop only has python2.5. [1] although /I'd/ be surprised, clearly the much-wiser-than-me people who wrote the cross-platform builder thought it could be an issue, and I'm happy to trust their judgement over mine in this regard. :) > Nevertheless, I can work on that issue concerning the mac osx lilypond. I > have one tiger ppc and one leopard intel, so i'll check compat for both > OSes and architectures. That would be great! Leopard has python 2.5.1 by default, so there's no problem there. Tiger uses 2.3.5, which does *not* support lilypond-book and convert-ly. (we use set(), which was introduced in python 2.4) I've made about half a dozen posts on this subject over the past year or two; it might be useful to read one or two of those threads. > Can someone point me to the code's development branch? http://www.kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/devel/contrib-guide/index.html in particular: http://www.kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/devel/contrib-guide/Getting-the-source-code.html#Other-branches (the gub link) and: http://lilypond.org/gub/ The last link is the most important one. Good luck! - Graham _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
