Hi all,

Yeah, I've reported that problem to Mac.

I will tray the Unix version.

Thanks,
Oleguer



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> 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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