We continue to compile for the Mac OS X cocoa frontend on both PowerPC (OS 10.5 leopard) and x86 (OS 10.6 snow leopard). The Continuous Integration (CI) system uses two real mac mini computers[1] as build slaves as Mac OS X cannot currently be reliably cross compiled for.
Recently the PPC CI system build slave (chimera) had a catastrophic hard drive failure and required a complete OS and development tools reinstall. This re-install took an extended period of time as the PPC system is somewhat slow compared to other targets. Generally we use SSD in our build slaves, however I was unwilling to bear the cost of a 2.5inch PATA SSD for this system so its been reinstalled with a reconditioned Seagate 5200 RPM drive. The cocoa frontend currently has no maintainer and I am interested in hearing from any actual users to give an indication as to whether it is worth investing any additional resources on this platform. So any actual users or developers, please speak up now! Note I am not asking for opinion about other considerations such as diversity and how nice it is to have a wide range of platforms supported, purely if there are any actual users. If there are none I shall simply remove these targets from the CI system on the next occasion this rather old and *very* slow hardware fails. [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/29254252@N06/8519229958/in/set-72157626712232414 -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
