Comment #5 on issue 2338 by d...@gnu....: OS X LilyPad not working
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2338

I am pointing out that OSX has now been responsible for about a month of  
stable release delay.  The people spending most of the time for fixing the  
problem have no way of testing it.  Any useful feedback even for total  
blunders takes weeks to arrive, and arrives more by accident rather than  
release-related coordinated testing, testing that does not require more  
skills than actually using the respective platform.  And that right before  
a major release.

I think we owe the OSX users the following information in the release  
announcement for 2.16:

a) since we don't have any actual users of MacOSX available for systematic  
testing and feedback, support for MacOSX is only provisional.  If any  
component of it works, you are in luck.

b) without anybody willing to engage in regular, timely and systematic  
testing, we have no option but considering MacOSX an unsupported platform.  
While we will package MacOSX versions for the near future, there is no way  
for us to know whether any part of them will actually work, and on what OSX  
versions.  For that reason, it does not make sense to have our release  
schedule set back in case somebody actually happens to report a problem  
short before a release.  Without anybody willing to do systematic testing  
and thus provide the most basic criterion for calling a system supported,  
any problem occuring only in relation with OSX will not be considered  
release-critical.


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