Dear CCP4 Users, CCP4 Core Team is in final stages for 6.4.0 Release. Every release and subsequent support takes a considerable effort, which scales linearly with the number of supported platforms. This makes us to periodically revise the scope of support we can offer to community.
Since at least 4 years ago, Apple stopped manufacturing and support of 32-bit architectures, both on hardware and software side. This means that further support of 32-bit Macs by CCP4 will be completely unjustified in some future, and may be uneconomical already today. Yet, before taking any radical actions, we would like to estimate the number of actual 32-bit Mac OSX users of CCP4. I therefore solicit a feedback from everybody who: a) has a 32-bit Mac machine running CCP4 AND b) uses this machine for CCP4ing routinely AND c) has no plans to acquire a 64-bit equivalent in 6 months time. It would help us greatly to estimate the demand, if all such users send content-less e-mails to mail-to: eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk Subject: 32-bit Mac: YES [system] where [system] is your Mac OSX release, such as 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6. PLEASE DO NOT CC THIS TO THE WHOLE CCP4BB BY MERE REPLYING TO THIS E-MAIL! I appreciate your time and willingness to help. Many thanks, Eugene Krissinel. Begin forwarded message: > Date: 10 July 2013 16:35:44 GMT+01:00 > To: hari jayaram <hari...@gmail.com> > Cc: <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 package manager not available for 32 bit OSX? > > Sadly not, we are dropping support for 32-bit Macs. You can still install > 32-bit CCP4 6.3.0 from dmg. > > Sorry -- Eugene > > On 10 Jul 2013, at 16:04, hari jayaram wrote: > >> Hi , >> I am trying to use the CCP4 package manager on my 32 bit OSX 10.6.8 running >> laptop and it complains >> >> "/bin/sh: Volume/setup/.pm/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup: Bad CPU type in >> executable. >> >> Is there a 32 bit package manager available... >> Thanks >> Hari >> >> <Screen shot 2013-07-10 at 10.57.53 AM.png> > -- Scanned by iCritical.
