Re: Lilypond is now on Homebrew for macOS Mojave or higher (Intel or M1)

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

> The Homebrew version will probably not be officially supported by the 
> Lilypond team as it uses Guile 2, but it is a simple and elegant new 
> way to install Lilypond.

I'm not authorised to speak for the Lilypond team (which I'm not really 
a part of anyway), but maybe I can elaborate a bit:

In theory, the use of Guile 2 makes this "release" of LilyPond 
substantially different from the official LilyPond builds for other 
platforms, so it's even less guaranteed that this version does what you 
expect it to do than it's the case the official builds (which isn't even 
possible, since the GPL already contains a statement to that effect anyway).
But in practice, I would expect this release to work very well (having 
used an experimental Guile22 build on Linux for quite a while in my 
everyday work earlier this year) and its availability to be a very 
exciting development for macOS users.

I'm also positive that the LilyPond team would very much appreciate bug 
reports from users of this new Guile-2 build, as there has been a 
substantial amount work to make LilyPond ready to be built with Guile 2 
in the first place (and perhaps support it officially at some point in 
the future).

Lukas