[Chandler-dev] Bug Council : issue on 0.7.2 on PPC Mac

[Grant Baillie]

On 19 Nov, 2007, at 12:24, Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Philippe Bossut wrote:
>
>> Bear finally tracked and fixed the relaunch problem that appeared  
>> on Chandler Desktop 0.7.2 PPC Mac (see bug 11305). We tested on  
>> several machines and confirmed the problem is fixed (build issue  
>> apparently).
>>
>> I suggest the Bug Council meets briefly this afternoon to review  
>> the actions:
>> - create a 0.7.2.1 for Mac PPC
>> - post it
>> - modify the 0.7.2 release note as adequate
>> - blog, announce
>> - others?
>
> I think we should consider labelling the Mac downloads more  
> explicitely now that PyLucene no longer uses libgcj which makes it  
> possible to run PPC Chandler on an Intel Mac. We should make it  
> harder to make that mistake by naming the downloads explicitely so  
> that they contain the strings ppc-osx and intel-osx.

+1, since it can be hard to spot the single letter "i" in the middle  
of a long filename (i.e. "...-iosx..." vs "...-osx..."). However,  
didn't we at some point have a check in Python code for running on  
the "wrong" architecture?

--Grant