Hi, I have now checked and the Xcode Python framework is build for i386+ppc+x86_64 (from file /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python) whereas wxWidgets+wxPython from Xcode is only i386+ppc. I think I will have to build my own custom Python Mac Framework and have a wxPython build with matching architectures. This might take a while, building wxWidgets and wxPython is an absolute nightmare!
I would prefer to keep the ppc target, if possible, as some smaller NMR groups will hang on to their old G5 hardware for a long time yet. In any case, I will have to build a custom framework with a set of matching architectures, so if ppc is in there or not shouldn't make a difference. As for using Linux with the relax GUI, it is true that works flawlessly. In fact, due to the amount of work involved, I was considering dropping all build targets and telling all Mac and Windows users that if they would like to use the GUI that they should run relax in a VM running Linux. Cheers, Edward On 5 April 2012 17:31, Ben Eisenbraun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Edward, > >> Is it worth having a 64-bit x86 version? > > Does relax need to access more than 4 GB of RAM per process/thread? I think > that's still the main deciding factor in the 32/64-bit choice. Apple claims > that 64-bit apps can see a 5-15% performance increase depending on workload > due to the extra general purpose CPU registers available in 64-bit mode. > *shrug* > > Among my user population, we have very few PPC users left. The stats from > our ~425 OS X users in March: > > https://developer.sbgrid.org/~bene/consortium-stats/four.html > https://developer.sbgrid.org/~bene/consortium-stats/five.html > > Given the current difficulties, my suggestion would be to simplify, > simplify, simplify. :-) Once you have a stable package that is working for > the most common platforms, i.e. OS X Intel 10.6/7, then add more options as > necessary to satisfy the corner cases. > > As an aside, the linux packages work great on every distro I've tested: > Red Hat/CentOS 5 and 6, Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.10, Debian 6, 32 and 64-bit for > all of them. > > -ben > > -- > | Ben Eisenbraun > | SBGrid Consortium | http://sbgrid.org | > | Harvard Medical School | http://hms.harvard.edu | > > _______________________________________________ > relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com) > > This is the relax-users mailing list > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this list, get a password > reminder, or change your subscription options, > visit the list information page at > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-users _______________________________________________ relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-users
