st: 64-bit console version for Mac OS X?

[Michael Hanson <mshanson@mac.com>]

A little over a month ago, Chinh Nguyen (cnguyen@stata.com) noted  
that the 64-bit version of Stata for Mac OS X would be available by  
the end of the year, as converting the application from Carbon to  
Cocoa was taking some time:

<http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-05/msg00916.html>
<http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-05/msg00921.html>

... perhaps longer than initially expected (viz, "we expect it to be  
ready during the first half of 2008"):

<http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-10/msg00905.html>

An even earlier thread from May 2007 discussed a 64-bit console  
version, but I cannot locate a follow up message to this one from  
Alan Riley (ariley@stata.com):

<http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-05/msg00954.html>

... which suggested that, "When Leopard is available, we will support  
64-bit under OS X."

Given that the unanticipated delays with releasing a 64-bit version  
of Stata for Mac OS X appear to be related to the GUI, and that a 64- 
bit version of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has been shipping since late  
October 2007, are there any plans for StataCorp to release a stand- 
alone 64-bit console version of Stata for the Mac prior to the  
release of the GUI version?  Please consider this message as a formal  
request for such a product.  Perhaps others with a desire to use a 64- 
bit Mac OS X console version soon would chime in to indicate their  
interest.

And thanks to StataCorp for their continued support of the Mac  
platform -- I am looking forward to the Cocoa version once it is  
released later this year.  (And, for the record, I would rather have  
a 64-bit Cocoa version that does not support the "window snap  
feature" sooner, than one that does much later.  Although supporting  
that feature in a later update of the executable would, of course, be  
welcome.)

					-- Mike
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