[sage-devel] Re: Call for votes on Sage for Mac OS X

2010-05-11 Thread Georg S. Weber
> > 2.) Having done this (or even not), shall we deliver the Mac OS X > > binary distributions in one and the same directory, i.e. discard the > > distinction (see E above) between "intel" and "powerpc" binary > > directories? (This would imply that we should add some mechanism(s) in > > the Sage

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Call for votes on Sage for Mac OS X

2010-05-11 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On May 11, 1:53 pm, Roman Pearce wrote: >> For what it's worth, PowerPC is totally obsolete and there were not >> that many 32-bit only Intel Macs shipped before they switched to the >> Core2.  I think you would do fine supporting only 6

[sage-devel] Re: Call for votes on Sage for Mac OS X

2010-05-11 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On May 11, 1:53 pm, Roman Pearce wrote: > For what it's worth, PowerPC is totally obsolete and there were not > that many 32-bit only Intel Macs shipped before they switched to the > Core2.  I think you would do fine supporting only 64-bit x86 on 10.5 > and 10.6.  That should cover everything bac

[sage-devel] Re: Call for votes on Sage for Mac OS X

2010-05-11 Thread curious
I have the honor of owning a CoreDuo MacMini, and iBook G4, and a Core2Duo MacBook Pro. All of these machines are in good health and produce very adequate performance. That said, to keep Sage current on all three machines I need OS10.4 32bit PowerPC G4, OS10.6 32bit CoreDuo, and OS10.6 64bit Core2D

[sage-devel] Re: Call for votes on Sage for Mac OS X

2010-05-10 Thread Roman Pearce
For what it's worth, PowerPC is totally obsolete and there were not that many 32-bit only Intel Macs shipped before they switched to the Core2. I think you would do fine supporting only 64-bit x86 on 10.5 and 10.6. That should cover everything back to Fall 2006, i.e. 0-4 year old machines, and at