Francois LE COAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
>>> A Mac version is going to be made available within the next few weeks.
>>
>>
>> To be more precise, the current goal is the first half of May.  
>> However, please note that this is just a goal and not a promise yet.
> 
> 
> Tiger (10.4 OS) will be out, and POV 3.7 will take benefit from it :)

Well, but please don't hold your breath about 64-bit addressing ;-)  That is 
only available to non-GUI programs (that is, i.e. database servers and soon 
who really benefit from 64-bit addressing and don't need a GUI), so for 
POV-Ray to use it, the GUI frontend and backend will need to be split apart 
completely and run as two independent programs that communicate with each 
other.  As few users have systems with that much RAM (less than 2% according 
to the collected stats), I cannot possibly justify holding back a beta 
release to develop the means to do this.  On the other hand, there are more 
than ten times as many users with dual-processor Macs, who will benefit from 
the multithreading.  It is more realistic in about a year from now to see 
something like 64-bit support.  Sorry!

	Thorsten

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