MacOS Intel S5R2 App 4.26 available for Beta Test
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16 Jul 2007 10:03:11 UTC
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A new MacOS Intel App is available from our Beta Test page.
This App is part of a new generation of Apps that follow our attempts to track down and fix the remaining problems of the new software we're using since S5R2 (There will soon be a MacOS PPC App once I've fixed a CPU-specific problem there).
This may remain an intermediate release that will never make it to become official Apps if we get enough feedback from running the Beta Test Apps that we can fix some more problems for the next "official" Apps.
Following a suggestion from Gary these Beta test packages feature an app_info.xml that should allow for continuing a Task that has been assigned to and possibly partially crunched with an older App version with this Beta App (keeping the old App version number, though). Note that there are some clients with which this doesn't work as desired, i.e. that reset the project when switching the platform (I've seen this behavior with the first Universal (PPC+Intel) MacOS Clients). So this Beta Test also covers this app_info.xml scheme. If in doubt, wait at least until the currently running Task has finished, report it manually and install the Beta App then.
gcc-compiled Apps such as the ones from MacOS and Linux apparently get a little speedup from using ftol() instead of modf() (which we originally did to fix problems of the Windows App), but this release is not primarily meant to improve speed. We'll work on this not before we have the validation problems found solved.
Please test&report here.
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MacOS Intel S5R2 App 4.26 available for Beta Test
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I'm a Mac beginner, so I don't know whether this is Mac common sense, but I had to change the owner of the files after un-compressing the archive because the standard boinc installation had BOINC installed under a dedicated user/group for BOINC. BOINC would not start without a "chown" of the extraxcted files. I'm not sure whether this is worth mentioning in the installation instructions on the beta test page.
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That would apply only to the most recent versions of BOINC, v5.8+ I believe, with the permissions “sandbox�; v5.4.9 doesn’t need the special BOINC owner & group settings.
RE: RE: I'm a Mac
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Yup, it's a 5.8 series cc.
Plese test the new App. BM
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Plese test the new App.
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