Re: [Jack-Devel] MacOS support

Kjetil Matheussen &lt;k.s.matheussen(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: If Mac users were able to work with XCode files and Darwin support, they'd be using Linux instead. MacOSX and Windows are operating systems mainly for terminal users, with "terminal" being an adjective rather than a noun. They form a caste separate from "programmers" and it is the latters' duty to serve the formers' needs: that's what they are paid for. Except that with free software, they rarely are getting paid. On systems like GNU/Linux the dearth of pay for free software is not different, but free software is much more common. As a result, the social norms around expectations and programming tasks are more favorable to sticking with a community as a free software programmer. Maybe take a look at GUB <http://www.lilypond.org/gub> ? Very few of the active developers of LilyPond have a clue about how it works (and when it breaks every few years, it tends to be months out of order), but it does provide binary installers for LilyPond on a number of different platforms for every single release. Automatically. Using humongous amounts of CPU time (I think first release still takes days when starting from scratch, but afterwards it's about 6 hours per release on an 8-processor machine. To be fair, most of it is compiling the documentation), but that's more affordable than human time. Basically, as long as things work, binary installers for Windows and MacOSX just fall out as part of the release process. -- David Kastrup