So I'm looking at the download page and I don't see any downloads for the 2.23 binaries. Am I missing something, or do I need to compile them myself?
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 10:40 AM DoubleFelix <doublef3...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >>
