Re: [RFC] Moving to Guile 2.2 and away from GUB

[David Kastrup]

Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
<lilypond-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Am Samstag, dem 27.11.2021 um 12:43 +0100 schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen:
>> Carl Sorensen writes:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> > I think GUB was a great idea, but it has proven difficult to maintain.
>> > And the creator of GUB (Jan), has indicated that he thinks it is not
>> > worth continuing to work on.  So GUB has been a dead man walking for
>> > some time.
>> 
>> FWIW, Han-Wen is the initial author of GUB
>> 
>>     
>> https://gitlab.com/janneke/gub/-/commit/34095019c86ced7dc3be79e306b7a7b45e3ab909
>> 
>> in an effort to combine the Darwin and MinGW cross build
>> scripts/makefiles.
>> 
>> But yeah, some 5 years ago
>> 
>>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-03/msg00204.html
>> 
>> I already proposed using GNU Guix, making use of its excellent cross
>> build system and creation of universal binaries.
>
> The problem is there is no such thing as cross-compilation for recent
> macOS, it's simply not allowed by Apple.

There could be for Darwin and it's conceivable that a command line
application like LilyPond could be delivered in that manner without
involving Apple's proprietary build environments.  Likely without
offering platform-specific font integration.

-- 
David Kastrup