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IRAF v2.15 and 64-bit -- A Status Report
Authored by: fitz on Tuesday, February 09 2010 @ 08:40 PM GMT
All the currently supported platforms will continue to be supported in v2.15, including SunOS/Solaris for Sparc (we still have machines in use at domes that require this). Since the core system is supported, external packages shouldn't be a problem to compile, but I don't see a great need to supply a full set of binaries unless requested.
Where changes may come into play are on Mac systems: Unless I add yet another architecture providing 64-bit Mac Intel binaries is an issue TBD. What I'm looking at is making 'macosx' an i386 universal (PPC and Intel) binary and moving 'macintel' to 64-bit x86_64 binaries. That, or we have both a 32-bit and 64-bit 'macintel' and leave it to users to download the correct binaries. As I said, this is still being decided, rough numbers suggest 1/3 of users still run Tiger so we can't assume everyone has a shiny new Mac.
Authored by: jturner on Tuesday, February 09 2010 @ 10:57 PM GMT
Yes, there is certainly a proliferation of different types of Macs, which had me a bit worried (not least becase I don't use them). It seems that the PPCs are rapidly becoming extinct though, now that (as I understand it) Apple seems to have stopped supporting them properly.
We've recently got away from Solaris for operations.
The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Where changes may come into play are on Mac systems: Unless I add yet another architecture providing 64-bit Mac Intel binaries is an issue TBD. What I'm looking at is making 'macosx' an i386 universal (PPC and Intel) binary and moving 'macintel' to 64-bit x86_64 binaries. That, or we have both a 32-bit and 64-bit 'macintel' and leave it to users to download the correct binaries. As I said, this is still being decided, rough numbers suggest 1/3 of users still run Tiger so we can't assume everyone has a shiny new Mac.
We've recently got away from Solaris for operations.
Thanks,
James.