Re: MacOS Lilypond distribution

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Matthias Neeracher escreveu:
> 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).

As I've said before: it's almost trivially easy to make the frontend
x86 too, but someone needs to run py2app on an intel box, and
send me the results.


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