5.0 Mac OS X PPC support?

[brian]

You can continue to build ZCS for PPC via the public source, there were no technical limitations that forced us to stop shipping pre-built binaries. Once we ship a platform for a major release we like to continue support for that platform throughout the lifecycle of that release. We would like to release a leopard build as soon as possible and do not have the cycles to maintain 3 mac builds along with the other 20 odd platform builds we maintain.

In general Network Edition releases will be supported for the greater of 1 year or 2 major ZCS releases and although unsupported the open source version usually follows. Platforms that we ship only an open source version on typically follow at least the 1 year guideline. We typically support the latest OS builds as demand dictates or as we phase out older OS's. Integrating, updating and compiling third party components is very time consuming across the 20 odd platforms we support so we rarely ship more then 2 versions of any one operating system.

I hope this addresses your concerns, for what it's worth I run my personal email on a PPC mac mini, so I understand your disappointment firsthand.

[drei]

Thanks Brian for the extensive reply.

Although I regret the absence of prebuilt binaries for the Mac PPC platform, I can very well follow your reasoning, regarding the maintenance of a plethora of OS platforms.

Remains the questions about a how-to to build from source. Is there something like that available somewhere? (first search in the wiki didn't surface something in that respect…)

- David.

[quanah]

Originally Posted by drei

Remains the questions about a how-to to build from source. Is there something like that available somewhere? (first search in the wiki didn't surface something in that respect…)

I suggest checking the Announcements area of the forums, which has a link to the wiki.

--Quanah

[drei]

Sorry, didn't find that link, can you please post it?

In the meantime I tried to start out on my own, but failed miserably already on the requirements: is 'rpm-build' really necessary, and if yes is there anybody who successfully installed RPM on Mac OS X 10.4?

[quanah]

Originally Posted by drei

Sorry, didn't find that link, can you please post it?

In the meantime I tried to start out on my own, but failed miserably already on the requirements: is 'rpm-build' really necessary, and if yes is there anybody who successfully installed RPM on Mac OS X 10.4?

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[miller.j]

Originally Posted by brian

You can continue to build ZCS for PPC via the public source, there were no technical limitations that forced us to stop shipping pre-built binaries. Once we ship a platform for a major release we like to continue support for that platform throughout the lifecycle of that release. We would like to release a leopard build as soon as possible and do not have the cycles to maintain 3 mac builds along with the other 20 odd platform builds we maintain.

In general Network Edition releases will be supported for the greater of 1 year or 2 major ZCS releases and although unsupported the open source version usually follows. Platforms that we ship only an open source version on typically follow at least the 1 year guideline. We typically support the latest OS builds as demand dictates or as we phase out older OS's. Integrating, updating and compiling third party components is very time consuming across the 20 odd platforms we support so we rarely ship more then 2 versions of any one operating system.

I hope this addresses your concerns, for what it's worth I run my personal email on a PPC mac mini, so I understand your disappointment firsthand.

Time consuming? So you would rather push the time to the paying customer? A bit backwards. We have been a paying customer for 2 years. Are we supposed to simply buy a new Intel server rather than using the Mac PPC server we bought specifically for Zimbra? I agree, we have been happy with Zimbra support up to this point. Our mail server cost us over $10k , ensuring we have enough capacity. Perhaps we will need to use that "upgrade" money to find a new mail software. We loved you before....what happened?

[segleaur]

Has anyone tried to compile 5.x on OS X PPC and upgrade their 4.x install?

[jholder]

For anyone who want to compile on PPC:
I will personally help you (via IM and e-mail) to compile 5.0 for PPC.

This is FOSS only, and no flakes. If you commit to it, then I'll help. I'll send you a shirt or something as well.

[drei]

Originally Posted by jholder

For anyone who want to compile on PPC:
I will personally help you (via IM and e-mail) to compile 5.0 for PPC.

This is FOSS only, and no flakes. If you commit to it, then I'll help. I'll send you a shirt or something as well.

Thanks for the offer, is it still valid? I'd like to give it a try…

[bouddi4]

I'll contribute a nice Australian shirt, too!