2013/8/16 Christian Andersson <christian.ld.anders...@gmail.com>: > This issue with running Frescobaldi on MacOS X must be one of the most > long-running among threads of this list. Why can't some of you Mac users > please take your responsibility for the community, and see to that a working > distribution gets created, from which everybody (with Macs) can benefit, > with all the tweaks and dependencies, and then donate this for download from > the official Frescobaldi-site. I'd love to be able to recommend a number of > friends of mine, sadly (for them) with Apple boxes, to take a look at > Frescobaldi, but given the state of affairs here this is simply not possible > at the moment. Of course it is easier to do this in, e.g., a Linux platform, > but I just can't imagine that it would be that impossible for Macs as is > suggested by all these howtos, neither of which seems to work for everybody.
Yesterday I submitted to MacPorts new Portfiles for frescobaldi and python-poppler-qt4. There's a couple of small changes that are needed, but I hope they will be approved soon. After they are in MacPorts' repository, frescobaldi should be easier to install. It will essentially be a matter of two/three MacPorts commands (plus maybe install Qsynth as a fluidsynth GUI and a soundfont for MIDI support): no more manually compiling the software. (I know, Mac users are more used to single packages you can download and copy in /Application/ folder. MacPorts is not that simple, but I would still say it is easy to use.) I will announce on this list when the Portfiles will be approved and available to all users. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
