Re: 2.15.27 won't open on Mac 10.4 PPC

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 03:55:56PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> James Worlton <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > So that means I'm stuck at 2.15.26? (Or 2.14.x?) Or is this something
>> > that was overlooked in compiling the PPC version?
>> 
>> The passive voice is a grammatical construct convenient for hiding the
>> active subject of a sentence.
>> 
>> Somebody apparently _did_ compile the PPC version.  And apparently with
>> a setup that is not representative for your computer.  So the solution,
>> instead of "being stuck", is to volunteer for that kind of compilation
>> work and thus be able to give early feedback.
>

[...]

> In the following discussion, AFTER the bug has been added to the
> tracker, we may decide to drop support for osx 10.4.  If we make
> that decision,

That decision obviously will depend on the availability of somebody
testing that setup.

> the osx download page will be modified to reflect it.  But
> until/unless we decide that, this is purely a Critical regression in
> the build system.

Reasonable, I am afraid.  Yet another holdup.

-- 
David Kastrup