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XSquawkBox Mac Users - the writing is on the wall


Wade Williams 877539
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Wade Williams 877539
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All:

 

If you're a user of XSB, I want you to be aware the writing is on the wall for major changes to XSB's compatibility matrix.

 

Apple's latest Xcode, Xcode 4, does not support any OS earlier than 10.6. That means it does not support PowerPC Macs.

 

For now XSB can be compiled with Xcode 3.2.6 and retain it's 10.4 and PPC support. However, I expect that to change in the future.

 

When will this change occur? I don't know. It could happen as early as June at WWDC, or it could take several more years. However, Apple has a history of moving quickly to deprecate things they no longer want to support, and I think Xcode 4 is big flashing neon sign that they want to drop everything prior to 10.6. So, in my opinion, Apple will likely drop support for Xcode 3.2.6 a lot sooner than many people would think or want.

 

If you're using an OS prior to 10.6 and have the ability to upgrade, I would suggest you start forward with a plan to do so.

 

If you have a PowerPC Mac (like I do), then that machine is likely going to be out of luck at some point in the future. Plan for this now - all the angry posts in the world won't change it. When Apple drops support for PPC and OS's before 10.6 in Xcode, so does XSB.

 

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

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Brian Cheung 1181193
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...so this only affects Mac users?

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Wade Williams 877539
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Correct. Post title updated to make it clear.

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Greg Miller 1166272
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This was generated tonight, but has happened often.

X-Plane's "Log.txt" says at the end... "This application has crashed because of X-Squalkbox""

I'm running Mavericks 10.9.2 on an iMac 27.

Looking for help and understanding, this is making VATSIM flight unreliable.

 

The following was generated by Apple.

 

Process: X-Plane [261]

Path: /Users/USER/Desktop/*/X-Plane.app/Contents/MacOS/X-Plane

Identifier: com.laminar_research.X-Plane

Version: 10.25r1 (398)

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [154]

Responsible: X-Plane [261]

User ID: 501

 

Date/Time: 2014-04-13 21:04:01.621 -0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

Report Version: 11

Anonymous UUID: 86780ACA-3D7D-7DF5-4FE7-EDDECFF64AB3

 

 

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

 

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000001d8ad74bbc

 

VM Regions Near 0x1d8ad74bbc:

CG shared images 00000001c7eb2000-00000001c7eba000 [ 32K] r--/r-- SM=SHM

-->

__TEXT 0000123440000000-0000123440883000 [ 8716K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GeForceGLDriver

 

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 ??? 0x0000000012fe9366 0 + 318673766

1 GLEngine 0x00007fff9281d90e gleDrawArraysOrElements_Comp + 335

2 mac.xpl 0x0000000082a11227 OBJ_PlotModel(int, int, int, float, double, double, double, double, double, double) + 695

3 mac.xpl 0x0000000082a0d6c6 CSL_DrawObject(CSLPlane_t*, float, double, double, double, double, double, double, int, int, xpmp_LightStatus, XPLMPlaneDrawState_t*) + 448

4 mac.xpl 0x0000000082a15ef6 XPMPDefaultPlaneRenderer() + 4058

5 mac.xpl 0x0000000082a078dd XPMPRenderMultiplayerPlanes(int, int, void*) + 38

6 XPLM 0x000000007f1f82e9 XPLMDispatchDrawingHook(int, int, int) + 121

7 XPLM 0x000000007f1f8614 XPLMDisplayDoDrawingHook(int, int) + 740

8 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x000000010085e29e XPPDoDrawingHook(int) + 222

9 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x000000010055b73a WORLD_scene_per_render(rendering_p[Mod - Happy Thoughts], float, float) + 12410

10 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x000000010055decf WORLD_scene_per_frame() + 2959

11 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x0000000100a56643 APP_update() + 2867

12 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x0000000100a58c14 MACIBM_post_event_proc() + 212

13 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x0000000100b9b96b WIN_run_app + 43

14 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x0000000100570351 main + 1169

15 com.laminar_research.X-Plane 0x00000001003e2010 start + 52

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Duncan White
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Can this be unpinned as it seems not to be relevant anymore ?

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Done

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