On 2026/03/03 16:05, Pavel Sanda via lyx-users wrote:
[...]
>> > IIRC the solutions seen:
>> > 1) someone creates homebrew formula to build mac binaries from source.
>> > 2) pay ransom to Apple to "certify" our package.
>> > 3) ask some other dev from TeX-osphere with existing account to sign for 
>> > us.
>>>> 
>>> Option 2 is probably easiset and most generic but also most 
>>> morally doubtful.
>> 
>> And option 1 is the "correct" solution, isn't it?
> 
> Well, it would mean that anyone who wants lyx on mac has to install 
> homebrew first. Some people might not like to install whole package 
> manager just to get lyx.

That is not correct, as there is a working DMG for the Mac.

Only Homebrew users are affected by this.

> The upside might be that at the end Stephan does not need to prepare 
> binaries anymore and the whole build process becomes automatized and 
> transparent (little bit like in gentoo linux, where you prepare only 
> build scripts and not binary packages, debian is slowly getting 
> there via git/salsa based pipeline).
> 
> How difficult is to built this on mac with all dependencies in place
> only Stephan knows (e.g. do we need/insert specific libraries etc> like for 
> windows?).
> 
> The transparency and decreasing the bus factor is probably what I 
> like most on the solution 1.

I like the automated process, and my little company can sponsor (some
of) the work, if need be. We did sponsor Stephan's Mac after all :-)-O

el

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