[Gambit-users] Experimental Gambit disk image for Mac available

[Turocy T. Dr (ECO) <T.T...@ue...>]

Hello all,

A common request I get is for a pre-built version of Gambit for Mac.  This has turned out to be a bit of a challenge to produce. Even though almost all Gambit development occurs on a Mac, I have never had convenient access to an entirely "clean" system, where all the support files, libraries, and so forth were absent.  Every time I've tried to build an app bundle of Gambit, it would work super on my own Macbook, but fail on others, for reasons I could never fully determine.

I am now the proud owner of a new, just-off-the-shelf Mac Mini, which is just such a "clean" system.  I have taken advantage of this situation to produce a Gambit app bundle which I have tested, and which works on the new computer (Intel, OS X 10.6).

I am making it available for download:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/779637/Gambit-20110106.dmg

If you are a Mac user, please download the disk image, and give the application a try.  Please report back your results -- both if you fail, and, just as importantly, if you have success -- to me *offlist* at T.T...@ue...<mailto:T.T...@ue...>.  Please let me know your hardware setup and version of OS X you are running.

I *believe* the version linked above should work for OS X 10.4 and higher, and should also work on PPC.  I do not have any non-Intel, non-10.6 systems to verify these claims at this point, so feedback from users in those categories would be especially valuable.

Ted