Awesome! Thank you! I've heard about the Cairo backend, but I kind of stopped once I found out I'd have to compile Lilypond on windows, mac, and linux myself. I have a windows machine, a linux VM, and a hackintosh, but even then the process seemed very in-depth so I gave up. However, I'm glad to hear that the release is approaching. Thank you so much for all this information. I also didn't know that 2.23 was static.
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 1:59 AM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > > > Le 20 août 2022 à 05:41, DoubleFelix <doublef3...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > Hello, > I'm making a python application that uses LilyPond, but in order to make > it completely portable, I need to bundle LilyPond with my application. It's > licensed under GPL, so if I'm reading this right I should be able to do > that as long as I make my own project GPL (already done). > > > > I *think* that the mere act of bundling LilyPond in the app would not be > legally different from distributing your app and requiring that LilyPond be > installed separately (IANAL). Cf > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLInProprietarySystem > > > > > I just want to double check I'm correct, and if I am, how can I minimize > file-sizes when it comes to distributing the binaries? All I use is the > lilypond command to compile a ly file into an SVG, none of the other > bundled tools. > > > > For a start, if you’re doing this, I would recommend using 2.23 (unstable > series) binaries, because they’re static, and can be relocated at will. > Also, the directory layout is the same on all platforms, and they already > don’t contain a minimalistic GUI like the 2.22 binaries do for macOS and > Windows. > > I think you should be able to reduce the size by removing the Python > interpreter, it’s needed for scripts (musicxml2ly, convert-ly, > lilypond-book, etc) but not for the core lilypond command. Also remove > GhostScript if you only need SVG only, it’s needed to convert PS to PDF. > > Finally, you will likely be interested in the brand new Cairo-based > backend, which is a lot faster than the traditional SVG backend. Support in > the official binaries is not there yet but should come very soon with the > 2.23.12 release. See > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/913 > > > HTH > > Jean > >
