Oh my bad. I meant to say available. As I said they're not approve due to lack of QA ( hint hint help out if you own a PPC)
iPhone of Gallo On 2009-11-03, at 1:06, Marcus Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > Gallomimia wrote: > > Hi, > >> Oops. Hit the send button prematurely. Let me try again with a real >> keyboard and not a touchscreen. >> This is not true. 3.0 3.1 and 3.1.1 are all released for PPC. I run >> 3.1.1 RC2 on my G4 with 10.5.8. Highly recommend you run software >> update to get the latest operating system. > > if you know that the build has not yet passed the QA approval, then > I would recommend not to name it as released. Otherwise this could > confuse people as the most know this term to mark a build/version as > stable and final and ready to use. > >> The problem here is there are not enough PPC users involved in the >> project. More testing is needed and the above versions simply have >> not >> had the proper quality assurance "go ahead" to move them to release >> status. They're perfectly stable, and there are ongoing bugfixes and >> error reporting like with any version. If you want to see releases >> more swiftly, I highly recommend becoming involved as a tester. Get >> with me offlist and we can work on it together. I am planning to do >> some testing tonight. > > I would be happy to put the Mac OS PPC build to the stable tree in > the mirror system after it got the "QA passed" stamp. :-) > > Best regards > > Marcus > > > >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Barry Z. Scott >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear Sir/Madam: >>> >>> I am writing to inquire about my current options running Open >>> Office on a >>> Power Mac G5 under Mac OS 10.5.6. According to the release pages, >>> and the >>> platforms table, I see that I am currently limited to version >>> 2.4.0 which >>> does not successfully launch onto my machine. Upon double click of >>> the icon, >>> it invokes the X11 environment, then hangs up, giving a "Command >>> timed out" >>> error message. Let me know what my prospects are for the Aqua >>> 3.1.1 release, >>> as this would be preferable given the time invested to get it >>> going, and >>> given the improvements made to the later release. >>> >>> Your kind attention is sincerely appreciated- >>> >>> With best wishes, >>> >>> Barry Z. Scott > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
