On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jim Clark <jimfortheea...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:57 PM, William Stein wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jim Clark
>> <jimfortheea...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:45 PM, William Stein wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the offer.  But we release new sage versions every 1-2
>>>> weeks (!), and having
>>>> old binaries doesn't help much....
>>>>
>>>> William
>>>
>>> But the binary that you offer at sagemath.org doesn't work,
>>> as the originator of this thread reported and as Michael Abshoff
>>> and I
>>> confirmed.
>>
>> In one week we will release a new version of Sage.  And another new
>> one a week or two later, etc.  Are you going to physically deliver new
>> binaries every week or two?
>>
> That's a good question, one I have not thought through.
>
> As it is, you have not been providing OSX PPC binaries with every
> Sage release --
> the previous one was for version 3.2.3 last November.

This was a mistake.  We intend to provide binaries for every single
release, but recently (and only recently) got lazy and didn't.  In the
future we intend to.

 -- William

> Do you know how much demand there is for OSX PPC binaries?
>
> Would it help to provide new binaries at major releases, which seem
> to come every month or two,
> not every one to two weeks? That's a way that I would be willing to
> help.
>
> Jim
>
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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