Having trouble running the app on macos 13 about frescobaldi HOT 3 OPEN

In a final effort I deleted v3.1.2 and ran brew install frescobaldi and it worked! Now I'm confused

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I download the newest version, which crashes on launch

Do you have more precise info? An error message?

Also, is this x86_64/amd64 (Intel) or aarch64/arm64 (Apple Silicon)?

Sometimes the main window never opens and application says Not responding

Other times, the window will open, but then after trying to use the app, it says Not responding

Probably #428

Sometimes I can launch the app, paste text, and click engrave, but the logs say that Frescobaldi could not find LilyPond and that I should add it to my PATH. I do have LilyPond and it is in my PATH

How did you install LilyPond? Note that if you manually added it to PATH through a shell startup file (.bashrc or such), Frescobaldi cannot see that since GUI apps don't use a shell.

There are many Frescobaldi issues on macOS. This situation has been like this for a long time. We are aware of it.

The basic problem is that although we have users on macOS, we have practically no contributors on that platform. I'm using Linux, and so are most other contributors. There is only @dliessi, who did a lot of hard work but has not been active on Frescobaldi in the past few months.

Frescobaldi has some dependencies that are exceedingly hard to get packaged. I've probably spent more than 2 weeks worth of time in total trying to get python-poppler-qt5 distributed in standard Python package formats.

Additionally, the macOS platform imposes lots of petty requirements that complicate our life, more so than Windows. For example, app bundles must follow a special structure which works well for XCode projects but is totally at odds with how standard Python packages work. Not to mention that we have to build both for Intel and Apple Silicon, and for a start, find people with Intel and Apple Silicon machines who are willing to help.

There has been recent progress, but as long as it will be led by people like me who have to send an email to a kind person running macOS each time they want to test a tiny thing, it will be slow.

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That sounds rough.

I download the newest version, which crashes on launch

Do you have more precise info? An error message?

Also, is this x86_64/amd64 (Intel) or aarch64/arm64 (Apple Silicon)?

No error message. The first time, I downloaded the latest .dmg. The second time I installed via homebrew and now it works.

Apple Silicon

How did you install LilyPond? Note that if you manually added it to PATH through a shell startup file (.bashrc or such), Frescobaldi cannot see that since GUI apps don't use a shell.

I used homebrew, which added it to PATH automatically. The newest version of Frescobaldi, installed via homebrew, did not have this PATH issue and works

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