Re: MacOS Lilypond distribution

[Matthias Neeracher]

On Nov 23, 2006, at 10:46 PM, Dylan McNamee wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the Mac OS x86 archive of Lilypond on this page:
>
> http://lilypond.org/web/install/
>
> is actually a PPC binary.
>
> Thanks for being the MacOS maintainer for this amazing program!

Actually, I'm NOT the MacOS maintainer, although I did contribute some  
MacOS work. As for the binary being PPC, first impressions might be  
deceptive:

• The lilypond binary itself (i.e. the program that does the  
typesetting) is definitely Intel native. (See Lilypond.app/Contents/ 
Resources/bin/lilypond).
• I'm not sure whether the frontend runs translated or native, but as  
far as I recall, the actual PPC binary in the app is tiny and only  
serves to launch a python script that does the actual work. Therefore,  
the frontend might also be running native (and in any case, that would  
be fairly irrelevant either way, because the frontend is not  
performance critical).

Hope this helps
Matthias