I'll think about doing it, but it will take me a couple of days to  
dedicate the time to the task.
Jim
On Apr 23, 2008, at 9:47 AM, William Stein wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jim Clark  
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>  Will you be providing a binary for OS X 10.4 PowerPC?
>
> Unfortunately I no longer have access to *any* OS X 10.5 powerpc  
> machines.
> I personally don't own any ppc machines, but I have access to three.
> The owners of all three of those machines recently upgraded them to  
> 10.5.
> So the only way for Sage to provide 10.4 binaries is to either:
>    (1) for me to buy a ppc os x machine and put 10.4 on it.  Yuck.
>    (2) for a user to volunteer to be the provider of os x 10.4  
> binaries.
>
> So who wants to volunteer to do (2)?
>
> All you have to do is install Sage from source;
>
>    tar xvf sage-3.0
>    cd sage-3.0
>    make
>
> and this just requires that you have XCode installed (nothing else
> is required!).  Note that XCode comes with your Mac on the DVD;
> or you can download it from the apple website.  Once you build
> Sage, you should make sure it works:
>
>    make check
>
> then make a binary:
>
>    ./sage -bdist 3.0-osx10.4-ppc
>
> and you'll get a file
>
>    SAGE_ROOT/dist/sage-3.0-osx10.4-ppc.dmg
>
> that you then make available to me somehow, so it can
> be put on the sagemath.org website.
>
> The above will take < 4GB disk space.
>
>  -- William
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Index of /SAGEbin/apple_osx/powerpc
>>  Name                                            Last  
>> modified      Size
>> Description
>>
>>
>>  Parent  
>> Directory                                                     -
>>  README.txt                                      21-Jan-2008  
>> 20:31   53
>>  sage-2.11-osx10.4-ppc-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg 30-Mar-2008  
>> 19:36  265M
>>  sage-3.0-osx10.5-ppc-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg  22-Apr-2008  
>> 06:23  225M
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jim Clark
>>
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2008, at 4:58 AM, mabshoff wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>>
>> Sage 3.0 has been released on April 21st, 2008. It is available at
>>
>>
>>            http://sagemath.org/download.html
>>
>>
>> * About Sage (http://www.sagemath.org)
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>
> >


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