On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David M. Monarres <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a good reason to use the 64 bit 10.6 binaries when there > seems to be quite a few failed doctests (at least on my machine)? Is > there a good reason to use the 64 bit binaries when they are still > buggy and the 32-bit 10.5 ones seem to work fine?
When OS X 10.6 came out, the 10.5 binaries failed miserably with crashes all over the place on 10.6 (for me, and for many people who mailed sage-support to complain). I thus did a ton of work to get Sage to build and work on 10.6, and maybe fixed all but "one last bug". In the meantime Apple released OS X 10.6.1. Interestingly, indeed the 10.5 binaries now work fine on 10.6.1! I can only speculate that 10.6.1 contains fixes that make it so the 10.5 binaries work, though they didn't work with 10.6. I wasn't aware of this until you just pointed it out to me. -- William > > > > > -- > D. M. Monarres > [email protected] > > > Originality is a thing we constantly clamor for, and constantly > quarrel with. > –Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historian > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
