I use Frescobaldi on all of my Macs with slightly different operating systems. It works well, but I'm concerned about the future. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer, so I can't contribute with coding. This is exciting, perhaps a bit too exciting, considering how we'll be able to continue with Lilypond. Is Frescobaldi the most common tool on Linux, or what do the majority of Lilypond users use?
Regards /MO 28 apr. 2024 kl. 13:15 skrev Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>:
Doing some system updates today, I see that frescobaldi is the only program that requires PyQtWebEngine:5, which in turn requires qtwebengine:5. Looking at the frescobaldi page, I see a somewhat concerning note that the project is on the verge of being unmaintained, due to this dependency on a deprecated version of qtwebengine.
Is there any further information on this? I don't see any other IDE that works as well as frescobaldi for editing lilypond files, and I'm a bit worried that there hasn't been an update to the program in over a year. Any news would be appreciated.
You've basically nailed the problem. I was the last person to work on making Frescobaldi actually work on macOS, and I gave up by lack of time (NB: I don't own a macOS machine, which of course makes all testing very difficult). Currently, there is close to no activity on the project.
I doubt Linux distributions are going to remove Qt 5 really soon, and the Flatpak package can always provide it, but like every toolkit that's end-of-life, it's only going to be a source of trouble going forward. For example, Frescobaldi has some problems on Wayland (which is increasingly becoming the default on the Linux desktop, for good reason) that are caused by Qt 5 bugs fixed in Qt 6. I don't recall that anybody even attempted the Qt 6 migration.
Yes, if the current state continues, Frescobaldi will ultimately die a natural death. Sorry that I cannot exactly bring an optimistic message here.
Best, Jean
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