On 10/9/05, Selzler, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Helllo Team, > > I've been looking at the school tool site, the new site is great btw, to try > and judge when a good time for trying out the school tool calendar would be > based on the release schedule. I note that you have an OSX installer for > version 0.11.1. I'm thinking that the OSX version would be easier for me to > install and probably run pretty well on a dual processor G4 OS 10.4.
> My question is, is there an OSX installer in the works for version 0.11.2? I > see that this version contains a number of bug fixes and would probably be > worth waiting for if its coming. Also, is there any feedback on running > school tool calendar on OSX? I'm curious about its performance in relation > to the x86 platform. There is a new installer "in the works" in the sense that I've been going through a little comedy of errors trying to get it together (I forgot to download the source for the package from the fellow who put it together for us, he already took it off his site, he put it back up but the disk image was corrupted...), but hopefully we can get that straightened out real soon now. In the meantime, you might consider trying a source install of the current version. See http://www.schooltool.org/documentation/developer-references/setting-up-a-development-environment/mac-os-x Regarding performance on Mac OS X vs. Linux... SchoolTool seems to run more slowly on Mac OS X. The test suite seems to take noticably longer, although I've done nothing approaching an apples to apples comparison. Some Python developers contend that Python runs much more slowly on Macs due to characteristics of the HFS+ filesystem, but it is all rather inconclusive (see http://www.gocept.com/Members/zagy/HFS-vs-UFS for example). Also, regarding dual processor machines. I just wrote up a quick FAQ on Python & multi-processor boxes: http://www.schooltool.org/documentation/faq/multiple-processors I found this out the hard way after buying a shiny new Dell dual processor server to run Zope at my old school. Anyhow, it should run fine on a G4. If you're dedicating a box to running SchoolTool (x86 or PPC), and you aren't actively of afraid or repelled by Linux, your best bet is probably installing Ubuntu (http://ubuntulinux.org) or Edubuntu (http://edubuntu.org), as that is the platform that our developers use and which receives most of our (volunteer) packaging attention. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
