Would it maybe make things a bit easier to leave the whole MacOS business aside and take care of the Linux-specific stuff first? And what actually about Windows - out of curiosity. I myself am a Linux user (Mint), and so far Frescobaldi is still running flawlessly.
And - another question out of curiosity: Could it be a workaround (if Qt5 would be officially retired and no longer be available in the repos of the "big" distros like Mint, Ubuntu and the like) if one used a distro for older computers which might stick to Qt5 much longer? At any rate the present state of affairs is really sad, since Frescobaldi just is a masterpiece of software for its purpose. I have looked at a couple of alternatives, but I was less convinced of them. Maybe in case Frescobaldi one day will not run any more, I need to return to a combination of a good text editor and a PDF viewer like I had many years ago when I was still a Mac user. I had TeXShop and Skim, and that worked well enough. And then I also sometimes used LilyPondTool which in the meantime is defunct as well, but was a similar approach to editing LilyPond files as Frescobaldi. This is the moment when I wish I'd be a programmer, but I am afraid the learning curve for helping out with Frescobaldi would be way to steep for me... Am Sonntag, dem 28.04.2024 um 22:14 +0200 schrieb Jean Abou Samra: > > […] > > Well, the explanation wasn't that brief. Sorry that I didn't have > > time to write a shorter one, as they say. > > > PS: Maybe I should mention that at the time I went down the rabbit > hole of Python packaging in general because of Frescobaldi, I wrote > two articles on the LinuxFR site, which may be of interest here if > one reads French: > > https://linuxfr.org/news/l-installation-et-la-distribution-de-paquets-python-1-4 > https://linuxfr.org/news/l-installation-et-la-distribution-de-paquets-python-2-4 > > (Yes, these are ~8 and ~14 pages long. Yes, they're only the two > first articles in a series of four. I haven't given up on publishing > the two others, but it's not my priority at the moment.) >