John Kuehne wrote:
> Perhaps Rosetta is crashing. I too cannot run POV-Ray on an Intel Mac. This
> is really a shame, because we are using POV-Ray for depicting the results
> of scientific research (in particular, the perception of motion). Waiting
> until sometime in 2007 for an official version that runs - forget the
> optimizations - isn't an option for us. And I'm not going to abandon the
> Intel Mac . . .

If the PowerPC emulator is crashing, that is *Apple's* problem, not 
POV-Ray's. Report problems with crashes to Apple. POV-Ray is a perfectly 
working and cleanly written PowerPC application, and it does run on every 
real PowerPC processor. on the other hand, the emulator Apple supplies is 
known to have problems, and they won't get fixed unless Apple is told they 
exist.

Report it to Apple, or nothing will change. Unlike with the much better 
planned 68K to PowerPC transition, Apple has neglected to develop a working 
debugger for the PowerPC emulation environment called "Rosetta" and instead 
rushed out unstable systems to end users. Even today there is no reasonable 
way to debug within Rosetta, except using a barely working hack documented 
by Apple to use an unreliable low-level command-line-based debugger.

BTW, effectively the poor development environments available, and the rushed 
transition is also the reason why major software vendors (i.e. Adobe) have 
been unable to deliver native software yet. there is just no way to properly 
develop and test on the x86 PCs sold by Apple yet.

As for POV-Ray, do not expect a native version earlier than 2008 or as part 
of POV-Ray 4.0, whichever comes first. In the meantime, you can always 
compile and run the Unix version natively on Mac OS X.

	Thorsten, POV-Team

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