> On 29 May 2020, at 18:29, Wim van Dommelen <m...@wimvd.nl> wrote: > > Is there somebody already working on a proper 64-bit compile of LilyPond for > the new Mac OS X 10.15.4 "Catalina" version? > > As an end-user now (but with more than 25 years of software experience, a lot > of mainframe and Unix hours spend in systems programming, now retired), I > liked the Apple "old style" for install and usage, that is: just copy the > .app file from a .dmg to a location you like. Although nowadays the job to > set up a complete virtual machine or yet another development copy is quite > easy, that still feels overdone to me. And I know from the past a seemingly > simple compile is often not always a straightforward task.
For an editor app, Frescobaldi is much better, and it runs lilypond externally, and for 2.21, there is the installer that I just posted about [1], which does not require MacPorts, or the MacPorts one itself, or possibly, traditional package chasing. 1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-05/msg00536.html
