tidalcycles
Apple Silicon compatibility
- PyQt5 needs to be updated to PyQt6
- QScintilla depends on PyQt5 and needs to be updated to PyQt6-QScintilla (https://pypi.org/project/PyQt6-QScintilla)
- liblo, which underlies pyliblo, does not support Apple Silicon. Probably need to switch to
python-oscorosc4py3
As a workaround, is it possible to enable installing without OSC or a GUI?
This would also be useful anyway for using Vortex's Tidal parser in other Python projecs
Have you got a reference for liblo not supporting apple silicon? I don't think we'd want to move to a pure python library as that likely wouldn't work as well as liblo. Happy to receive PRs for qt6 etc tho.
Ok, might be that liblo is fine, but having issues trying to install pyliblo3 on M1: https://github.com/gesellkammer/pyliblo3/issues/2
Re Qt6, I can't test if it works yet, and wouldn't be able to test on Debian etc.
"In theory" it's just modifying pyproject.toml to:
PyQt6 = "^6.4.0"
PyQt6-QScintilla = "^2.13.3"
And then in gui.py:
from PyQt6.Qsci import *
from PyQt6.QtCore import *
from PyQt6.QtGui import *
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import *
So maybe if a Linux user can check that Qt6 doesn't break anything, then a PR might be possible.
I checked the update to PyQt6 on a windows machine. I had to change a couple of lines in gui.py to get it running. Some symbolic constants have changed. @jarmitage could you get it running without these changes?
Ich checked the change also in the github CI and it build also on Linux. I issued a pull request #38 for the change.
@munshkr has merged the changes for PyQt6 to the main branch. @jarmitage could you check it? Maybe also to update the readme for MacOS.
@karstenj I still cannot get this running on macOS due to the same issue with pyliblo3 on M1