Re: Roadblock MacOSX 10.4 for release of LilyPond 2.16

[David Kastrup]

James Worlton <address@hidden> writes:

> On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:30 AM, James Worlton wrote:
>
>> On my PPC 10.4 machine Lily 2.15.26 was the last one that ran (the
>> GUI) without problems. I am not near my machine now, and so I can't
>> test if 2.15.27 will run from the command line. I'll test that
>> tonight.
>>
>
> So, I'm a bit late with the results of this test. But I can say that
> the most
> recent dev. version, 2.15.28, DOES compile and provide output if
> you run Lily from the command line. It appears the problem is solely
> related to the GUI.
>
> Mac OS X 10.4
> Dual 2.7 GHz PPC G5

I have an hour of developer time from Graham left that I earned with a
job I did for him.  He estimates that the preexisting work and analysis
should make this suffice for him getting the MacOSX changes required
into GUB.  For the sake of getting a stable release out soon, I am
willing to make that issue go away.

However, it will also go away by declaring MacOSX PPC an unsupported
platform.  I don't see any rationale why I should ask Graham to do the
work just out of his heart's goodness.  And if the MacOSX PPC community
does not consider this task worth the 70€ for which I would let my
remaining Graham hour go (and it is definitely a steal), there is no
point in anybody investing the work for a platform nobody is interested
spending any resources on.  I would also guess that a _willing_ MacOSX
developer could learn the ropes in a few hours.  Which would be a more
reliable course in the long run since obviously this problem is not
necessarily the last ever.

Just for the record: I already invested my other Graham hour into a
release-critical task that is not particularly interesting to me.

And I am sick to death about users pontificating why I (or Graham or
whoever else) should consider it my holy duty to make them happy at any
price to myself.  So here is your chance at showing that there is enough
interest in maintaining PPC compatibility to give it a reasonable shot
of happening (and be realistic: even a Graham hour is not more than a
good shot at it: if you are really serious, learn the ropes and invest
the time it takes to get this right).

-- 
David Kastrup