On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 1:13 PM Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > >> And all users that don't use the two latest releases of MacOS (like > >> me) are out of the game, too. > >> > >> [Note that I'm not a MacOS user at all. For daily work I'm > >> exclusively using GNU/Linux. It's just that I'm interested in > >> providing support even on exotic platforms :-)] > > > > Since you’re not a Mac user, are you in any position to talk about > > what’s more usable on Mac OS *to experienced Mac users*? > > Uh, oh, a smiley in the end seems not to be enough to mark irony... > > Irrespective of that, Homebrew does not support macOS 10.7, so this is > not related to `experience' at all. >
Good to know; I wasn't aware of that. However, won't our existing 32-bit Mac build process be sufficient for 10.7? > > > If you’re not a Mac user, I suppose it makes sense that you’d prefer > > MacPorts: isn’t it more or less a BSD package manager? The problem, > > though, is that it doesn’t fit the spirit of Mac OS very well. > > Homebrew does a *much* better job at playing nice with the rest of > > the OS, its CLI is pleasant, and it’s easy to create new packages. > > I started with Homebrew, but since 10.7 is no longer supported I was > forced to abandon it. By the way, it seems to me that your `hazy > recollections' are no longer valid, as far as I can tell. Having used > both package managers I don't see an essential difference in the CLI > (except that Homebrew uses colours and the sexy beer emoji on the > command line). > Thanks, that's good to know. I'll probably have a look at current MacPorts in a VM, then, and see what I think of it now. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser mar...@marnen.org http://www.marnen.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
