Noting that a thread in this list in the past month revealed that Frescobaldi has had significant work done for a version 4 release that updates dependencies (see posts by Knute, Jan 15th).
Target release date was Jan 20th. Regards. -- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 5:41 PM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > Hello Brian, > > > Hello. I downloaded Lilypond 2.24.4 and Frescobaldi 3.3.0 onto My Mac > > Monterey OS system and had frustrating results. I plan to get a > > laptop with a Linux OS and wondered if someone could advise a LInux > > distro that has these packages or something similar. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian > > the nice thing: Lilypond is not using overly complicated dependencies and > is > thus well supported with almost all Linux distributions (also Lilypond > offers > binary downloads as well). Optimally you’d want to use an OS providing a > somewhat recent version. > > The not so nice thing: Frescobaldi is not really maintained, and still > based > on the qt5 framework, which has been deprecated by the qt company (at > least > the GPL licenced version). The KDE team has take the job of patching it > while > they still need it, but we will most likely see distributions dropping qt5 > from their repositories in the over the next years. Unless Frescobaldi is > ported to qt6 this would mean that frescobaldi also needs to be dropped. > > At this point the most reasonable approach would probably frescobaldi > being > delivered with it’s own qt5 environment, i.e. using a flatpack, which > should > work on all common distributions. > > Cheers, > Valentin
