I don't have too much in development skills, but I have a Mac mini running Catalina that I could try and build on and see what happens. I've built things from source before so it's not unfamiliar territory. Happy to help if I can.
Best, Ben On Mon, Feb 9, 2026, 12:57 PM Hans Aikema <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hans Aikema, direct vanuit de iCloud > > > Op 9 feb 2026 om 06:51 heeft Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> het volgende > geschreven: > > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > we plan to release LilyPond version 2.26 around end of April. > > > ... > > > However, I currently don't have access to that Mac, and due to the age > > of this computer the development cycles are glacially slow. > > > > Is there anyone using MacPorts who could work on this file and submit > > updates? > > I have zero experience with MacPorts maintenance/development, but I do own > a Mac Studio M4 that should be able to run at a non-glacial speed > > Generic IT/development skills are present, but on the dev side mostly > limited to Java development > > Would that work? Or would I need deeper Guile/C skills to work on this? > > > The efforts up to now for keeping the stable version available and > up-to-date (as well as occasionally the -devel variant if there happened to > be something interesting for me to try out in the unstable releases) have > been higly appreciated as I do use MacPorts as an end-user to get several > tools among which lilypond provisioned and updated on my system. > > >
