Re: Frescobaldi?

[Martin Straeten]

frescobaldi runs fine with apple silicon via macports. if there are issues with the build then you can install a binary package ...

at least worth a try before trying some workarounds ...

Am Mi., 8. Mai 2024 um 11:17 Uhr schrieb Xavier Mayeur <xavier@mayeur.be>:

Without reopening the debate, Frescobaldi-Linux works perfectly well under Docker on MacOS, with a X-server like XQuartz. No headache.
You get the look and feel of a Linux GUI, and you just have to map your MacOS score folder on the docker volume. It is fast and stable on my Mac Pro M2. Never hangs, as I often experienced when launching the frescobaldi.app

The only open point I haven't solved so far is the sound/midi mapping on the Mac sub-system.

Let's park the discussion on that topic, but let's keep in mind that it is an working alternative in case the Mac porting would not be maintained anymore and you don't have a spare Linux machine under the hand.

Xavier

Le 6/05/24 à 16:47, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :

Regarding MacOs porting, a valid alternative would be to run
the linux version of Frescobaldi from a Docker container

Perhaps, but from the perspective of building .app bundles, that replaces
a headache (shipping Qt, PyQt, Poppler and python-poppler-qt5) with what
sounds like an even larger headache, and there's a myriad of ways it won't
integrate well with the macOS system around it (file dialogs, global menu,
and so on). If the goal is to just have something that works, the Homebrew
and MacPorts packages already work better.

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Cordialement,

Xavier MAYEUR
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