On Dec 24, 2007, at 1:28 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
On Sun, December 23, 2007 2:25 pm, js wrote:
But there's no working 1.6 binary for OS X 10.3. Wouldn't it be nice to postpone that change after the fix? (I won't be long, right?)
I was hoping that it'd be out by now (I've been working with Juan to build the dmg for 10.3), but I ran into a 10.3-only runtime bug when building from the 1.6 source and Juan hasn't got back to me with a fix for it yet. I hadn't filed a ticket for it as I'd been in direct contact with Juan about it, but if anybody has a 10.3 system and would like to see if they can reproduce the bug (and hopefully fix it), I'd be happy to file a ticket to describe how to do so (unfortunately, we found that the 1.6 source tarball won't even build directly on Mac OS X; it needs to be patched first).
Kind regards,
Maun Suang
I'm sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this issue, Maun Suang, but I've been both away for the last three days and unable to test, as I don't have access to any Panther box I can test on. Nevertheless, I'll try looking into the report you sent me to see if I can come up with at least a theory... and hopefully work our way up from there. If no one hits the bull's eye on this bug then I guess we're going to have to discuss what to do about the Panther dmg and maybe even Panther support as a whole. But lets not get too ahead of ourselves just yet, I'll look again at your report before proposing any alternatives. About 1.6 and Trac, I just made it default for new tickets. Regards,... -jmpp PS: Users on Panther that selfupdate will be pushed up to 1.6, so I'm hoping we'll be able to gather some more information if the error is a widespread one.