Nevermind, I'm stupid. They were right above the source code downloads. On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 4:39 PM DoubleFelix <doublef3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >>> >>>
