On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:18 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Oct 14, 4:53 am, "davidgal...@gmail.com" <davidgal...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I know this is small potatoes, but could you be a bit more clear in >> the naming conventions for the Mac PPC binaries that you publish (and >> a blessing upon you for that). There are two binaries named >> >> sage-4.1.1-OSX10.4-32bit-G4-PowerMacintosh-Darwin >> >> and >> >> sage-4.1.1-OSX10.5-PPC-PowerMacintosh-Darwin >> >> I have an IBookG4 running MacOSX 10.5 and I wonder: which one is >> intended for my computer? If one is 64-bit, then could you put the 64 >> in the name? >> > > You should try the G4 binary and see if it works, since you have a G4, > but it's possible the other one would work too. I believe at this > point any released binaries are 32-bit. If this doesn't work, you > definitely can download the source code and follow the instructions to > build your own (if you have Fink or MacPorts you may have to do > something first). You should also see about waiting for the very > imminent release of 4.1.2. > > The naming convention is because we don't have automated building of > enough binaries for Mac! There is a trac ticket for improving the > naming, but no one who knows how to do it properly has worked on it > (that doesn't mean it's hard, it just means no one has worked on it). > Part of the issue is also that I don't think we have every possible > configuration available to build binaries for Mac right now; if you > count it right, one could conceivably have 32/65, PPC/Intel, G4/G5, X. > 4/X.5/X.6 (not all those combinations, but you catch my drift). > > However, every time someone complains about this, it will encourage > someone to do something in the build system to fix this. More > knowledgeable folks will have better comments for you. Good luck! > > - kcrisman > > PS to those who wanted to drop PPC support because of some weird > failures - clearly, we still have potential users who aren't buying a > new computer soon!
I suggested dropping support in the sense that I didn't want to have to do all the work to maintain support. When I mentioned that several people (including you) stepped up to the plate and have done a great job. So I'm now all for continuing support. Regarding 32/64-bit, there has never ever been a 64-bit version of Sage on any OS X PPC install. The builds on PPC are all always 32-bit. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
