Re: LilyPond 2.23.9 released

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Jonas;

  I think that the Rosetta tool only works for x86-64 binaries that
were built for Micro$oft.

  When I try the method as outlined at
https://www.imore.com/how-identify-intel-based-apps-m1-mac
  I don't see any way to select a different execution method (such as Rosetta).

  I, obviously, don't know much about this, so it is likely that I am
missing something here.

  In general, I think it would be a good idea to support Apple Silicon
directly soon, as there will be more requests for it.

  Meanwhile, I'll just continue using the homebrew version of Lilypond
(quite satisfied with it, really).

Thanks,
Ken


On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 2:51 AM Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 11:12 -0700, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > Hi Jonas;
> >
> >   This is cool.
> >
> >   Question: Will there be support in the future for Apple Silicon?
>
> Possibly. We'd need to ask MacStadium for a second node with Apple
> Silicon (they're already sponsoring the node that I use to build the
> x86_64 binaries). What makes this a bit complicated is that I don't
> have a management account to do that. LilyPond's entry in MacStadium's
> open source program is managed by a person who isn't actively
> contributing to (core) LilyPond (not even reading the mailing list
> IIRC), and communication via him was kind of slow / painful in the
> past...
>
> >   Currently homebrew provides Lilypond 2.22.2 for Apple Silicon, that
> > is what I am using.
>
> Did you try running the x86_64 binaries via Apple's Rosetta tool? That
> might be a bit slower than native executables, but given that Homebrew
> builds 2.22.2 without Guile bytecode, it might actually be comparable.
>
> Jonas
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
> >
> > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:53 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user
> > discussion <lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.9. This is termed
> > > a development release, but these are usually reliable. However, if you
> > > require stability, we recommend using version 2.22.2, the current
> > > stable release.
> > >
> > > As a reminder, the official binaries can be downloaded from GitLab:
> > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.23.9
> > > We provide packages for macOS ("darwin"), Linux, and Windows ("mingw")
> > > that only need to be extracted (no installation as in older versions).
>