From: Makarius <makarius@sketis.net>
Apple has release OSX 10.10 Yosemite 10 days ago.
As usual my first reaction to operation system releases is to ignore them
for serious work. But to see how Isabelle works with it, I have made a
fresh test installation today.
In contrast to one private report off-list, I did not encounter any
problems so far, using the official Isabelle2014 distribution as is.
This is no proof of absence of problems: a new OS release normally needs
some months to stabilize.
Latest Java 8 (e.g. 8u25) seems to have substantial problems with OSX
10.10 -- e.g. see the activity on
http://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/mailman/jedit-devel -- but we are using the
more conservative Java 7u67 in Isabelle2014.
If there are further observations about OSX Yosemite, problem reports,
workarounds etc. please contribute to this thread.
Makarius
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From: Lawrence Paulson <lp15@cam.ac.uk>
My attempt to upgrade to Yosemite on one of my three machines was a disaster. The “upgraded” machine could no longer drive its own display. Apparently the presence of certain software (TeXLive, MacPorts) causes great complications. I had to wipe the hard drive and then reinstall everything using Migration Assistant. Make sure you have an up-to-date backup before attempting this upgrade, or wait for the next point release of Yosemite.
Larry Paulson
Last updated: Nov 21 2024 at 12:39 UTC