On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
I'm updating our nightly build, and I noticed that there are no current builds for OS X PowerPC.
Are the PowerPC builds going to be discontinued? I searched the mailing list, but I didn't see an announcement.
We were sort of hoping no one would notice - the download and bug report statistics indicate that very few people are still using the PPC installer. The problem is actually that our lone G5 machine is dying a slow, lingering death, and we can't rely on it continuing to work indefinitely. That said, my guess is that the source installer should still compile on PPC, since we only stopped a couple of weeks ago and the compilers are mostly similar. (The exception is Fortran, for which you still need to use g77/gfortran - but not for much longer, I hope.) If you're desperate, I may be able to build a PPC binary installer of the next official release. For the record, Linux 2.4 support has also been discontinued - in this case, because the C++ compilers are hopelessly obsolete and break on standard code. By the way, I would recommend waiting to upgrade anything, because a new official release is imminent anyway. -Nat ------------------- Nathaniel Echols Lawrence Berkeley Lab 510-486-5136 [email protected]