> > 2.) Having done this (or even not), shall we deliver the Mac OS X > > binary distributions in one and the same directory, i.e. discard the > > distinction (see E above) between "intel" and "powerpc" binary > > directories? (This would imply that we should add some mechanism(s) in > > the Sage binaries to detect whether they "want to" run on the > > architecture/CPU/bitlength/OS version/environment they are started > > on.) > > I don't understand this. Do you want to double the size of the > distribution? If so, then I vote "no". > > William >
Sorry for any confusion, let me clarify what I mean with my call for votes no. 2. Currently we have, see e.g. http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/metalinks.html : osx/powerpc sage-4.4-OSX-32bit-10.4-PowerPC_G4-Darwin.dmg osx/powerpc sage-4.4.1-OSX-32bit-10.5-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg osx/intel sage-4.4.1-OSX-64bit-10.6-i386-Darwin.dmg osx/intel sage-4.4.1-OSX-32bit-10.4-i386-Darwin.dmg and my proposal is to change this to: osx sage-x.y.z-OSX-64bit-10.6-i386-Darwin.dmg osx sage-x.y.z-OSX-32bit-10.6-i386-Darwin.dmg osx sage-x.y.z-OSX-32bit-10.5-PowerPC_G5-Darwin.dmg osx sage-x.y.z-OSX-32bit-10.4-i386-Darwin.dmg osx sage-x.y.z-OSX-32bit-10.4-PowerPC_G4-Darwin.dmg i.e. not altering the binary distributions in size or content, but simply provide them together in one directory, instead of the two distinct former directories "(osx/)intel" and "(osx/)powerpc". Cheers, Georg P.S.: I think it would be great to have in the Sage build farm a CoreDuo 32bit OS X 10.6 machine, where Sage is built on regularly, for every release. This certainly will help certain Sage users, see e.g. the report at that post: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/c7ee51a4e12ec5e0# which *might* be a problem of the user's configuration/setup of course, but it also might be the case that Sage 4.4 / Sage 4.4.1 / Sage 4.4.2 does not even build currently on "CoreDuo 32bit OS X 10.6". I can't test/work on this myself (having neither a CoreDuo 32bit machine, nor any OS X version but 10.4), but I felt uncomfortable, when responding in the just mentioned thread. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
