Re: 64-bit Mac build: now for 2.18 as well!

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:00 PM Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:

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>
> On 2/7/20, 9:36 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Marnen Laibow-Koser"
> <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=address@hidden on behalf of
> address@hidden> wrote:
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>     Folks--
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>     Just to let you know, I've packaged up 2.18 in a 64-bit Mac .app as
> well;
>     you can get it at
>
> https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64/download_file?file_path=lilypond-2.18.2.build20200207162459-darwin-64.tar.gz
>     .  2.19 builds continue to be available at
>     https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64/lilypond-2.19.83 , and
> I'd be
>     happy to have your feedback either here or at
>     https://gitlab.com/marnen/lilypond-mac-builder/issues .
>
> Darn, I wish you hadn't done 2.18 __ .  Not having it available as a
> 64-bit MacOS app meant that we got people using the current version, rather
> than the relatively obsolete stable version.  But I know there are those
> who want the stable version.
>

I was always intending to have both available. :)


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> So do you have the process automated now?  Is it available anywhere for
> one to review it?
>

Yes...did you look in the GitLab repo I posted a link to?

Once I get everything working reliably, I will set up some sort of CI/CD
pipeline (probably GitLab's, but really I'll use whatever works best) to
produce automatic builds for each release as GUB currently does for other
architectures.


> Thanks, again for doing this.  This is a HUGE benefit to LilyPond.
>

You're most welcome!  I really don't feel that I'm the right person to be
doing this in terms of my knowledge of Mac desktop application development,
but clearly I've gotten further than anyone else has on this...


> Carl
>
>
>
Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
address@hidden
http://www.marnen.org