Thanks to all who responded to my request. I've asked first for help on the LilyPond mailing lists, hoping that there are some people who have both experience with LilyPond and programming...
>> 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 Nice! > 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? Thanks for your offer! In general, no need for Guile/C skills, I think. It's rather to fumble around with a Macports Portfile, which is written in (easy) Tcl, and which has to be updated to replace the 'guile-2.2' package with 'guile-3.0'. Both LilyPond and guile 3.0 themselves build cleanly on the macOS, AFAIK. The documentation at https://guide.macports.org/#development is quite good IMHO, and there are zillions of other Portfiles to look at in the 'macports-ports' git repository. > 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. Well, if you currently use 'lilypond-devel' via MacPorts, you get a two-years-old version... Werner
