On Feb 4, 2012, at 5:07 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > James Worlton <jworl...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:30 AM, James Worlton wrote: >> >>> On my PPC 10.4 machine Lily 2.15.26 was the last one that ran (the >>> GUI) without problems. I am not near my machine now, and so I can't >>> test if 2.15.27 will run from the command line. I'll test that >>> tonight. >>> >> >> So, I'm a bit late with the results of this test. But I can say that >> the most >> recent dev. version, 2.15.28, DOES compile and provide output if >> you run Lily from the command line. It appears the problem is solely >> related to the GUI. >> >> Mac OS X 10.4 >> Dual 2.7 GHz PPC G5 > > I have an hour of developer time from Graham left that I earned with a > job I did for him. He estimates that the preexisting work and analysis > should make this suffice for him getting the MacOSX changes required > into GUB. For the sake of getting a stable release out soon, I am > willing to make that issue go away. > > However, it will also go away by declaring MacOSX PPC an unsupported > platform. I don't see any rationale why I should ask Graham to do the > work just out of his heart's goodness. And if the MacOSX PPC community > does not consider this task worth the 70€ for which I would let my > remaining Graham hour go (and it is definitely a steal), there is no > point in anybody investing the work for a platform nobody is interested > spending any resources on. I would also guess that a _willing_ MacOSX > developer could learn the ropes in a few hours. Which would be a more > reliable course in the long run since obviously this problem is not > necessarily the last ever. > > Just for the record: I already invested my other Graham hour into a > release-critical task that is not particularly interesting to me. > > And I am sick to death about users pontificating why I (or Graham or > whoever else) should consider it my holy duty to make them happy at any > price to myself. So here is your chance at showing that there is enough > interest in maintaining PPC compatibility to give it a reasonable shot > of happening (and be realistic: even a Graham hour is not more than a > good shot at it: if you are really serious, learn the ropes and invest > the time it takes to get this right).
I don't use the PPC platform for Lilypond any more but I am willing to kick in some cash if that will help make it possible to maintain usability on older Macs. I know absolutely nothing about computer programming, so I can't do the work. It'd be a lot faster for me to pay for someone else's time than to learn the skills to do it myself. I'll pledge US $25 if that will help. Any other donors willing to pony up? _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user