Roland,
Here is the official line.
(See also my email dated 2nd Dec 2005)
Witango 5.0 is not supported on 10.3 or 10.4. Witango Server 5.0 was
developed with Project Builder and tested on 10.1 and 10.2. It is a
use at own risk on 10.3 and 10.4. There have been may changes to the
plumbing that may affect the server. I am also pretty sure that the
installer itself will not work as Apple completely changed those
subsystems completely.
Witango 5.0 was built on OS X 10.1/10.2 with Project Builder and GCC
3.3.
Witango 5.5 is built on OS X 10.4 with XCode 2.1/GCC 4 so we are
still able to use the stack traces from it. The code bases and
technologies are miles apart and are not compatible with the XCode
2.1 and GCC 4.
The minimum requirements for Witango Server 5.0.1.065 for OS X are
below and give you an indication of what the server was built on.
OS X: 10.2.6
Hard Disk Space: 20MB free
Memory: 128MB RAM
Database Connectivity: ODBC driver manager such as iODBC or unixODBC,
ODBC 3.0 or above database driver, JDBC, Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
8.1.5.6 or above or FileMaker 5.5/6
JVM: 1.4.1.01 or greater
The "or greater" was purposefully left off the OS X version line and
the heading in the installer is "Witango Application Server 5.0 For
Mac OSX 10.2" Only Witango Server 5.5 has been built on and for 10.3
and 10.4 which is why it has the requirement of OS X 10.3.9 or
greater and 5.0 doesn't.
You would be running the Witango Server on an operating system that
is 2 major upgrade and 16 minor upgrades (+security updates) more
recent than the version of the OS the server was built on. It is
nearly impossible to predict the 5.0 server's behaviour with the
number of changes to the operating system and libraries since it was
built. OS X is not like Windows where the interfaces change slowly
and methodically and are kept backward compatible like the mfc
libraries. OS X is in a constant state of flux and behind the pretty
interface the changes can sometimes be enormous like when Apple
introduced 64 bit compatible headers and switched from SGI headers to
HP headers. Now we have all the changes OS X needs to run on
different CPU architectures.
Since the release of Witango Server 5.0.1.065 Apple have released
10.3, 10.4, JVM 5.0 and have also released new compilers in the form
of XCode 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0, 2.1 and now 2.2. If you also
factor in the changes to MySQL and ODBC the environment you are
running the Witango Server in is very different to what it was built
on. Each of these changes will have had some impact on one or more
of the subsystems the Witango Server relies on. To give you some
idea of the changes to OS X and it's subsystems, the Witango Server
5.0.1.065 code does not even compile on 10.4 with XCode 2.2 so we
cannot even provide you with a new build from the 5.0 code base.
I hope this explains the situation on why it is going to be trial and
error running Witango Server 5.0.065 on OS X 10.4.5.
Regards
Phil
On 20/02/2006, at 7:20 AM, Roland Dumas wrote:
Anyone running witango 5 on OS X server 10.4?
I'm plotting my upgrade sequence and need to know if I can do the
OS first
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