I had hoped to push the 3.8.11b2 universal out, but we needed just  
one more test, then I decided to recompile all the plugins. Because  
of the platform change I'm altering how plugins are loaded, in  
3.8.11b2 forward we will load them from the application resource  
folder and ignore other locations unless we cannot find them in the  
resources folder.  This is because non-universal plugins aren't run  
under rosetta and what you get back is the plugin failed to load,  
which is very confusing.

That is taking awhile to confirm and test, really the issue is that  
we need a proper test suite to confirm the VM platform specific code  
works as expected. For
example although we've had people poke at the universal VM for a few  
weeks now, no-one realized the sound plugin didn't actually work  
right because
of endianess issues, or that type and creator codes on files are  
being reversed because Apple stores that meta data in Big endian form  
only.

One thing that would be good are a few folks that would be willing to  
run down a spreadsheet of
functionality and make SUnits to check the suggested results, not  
only would this ensure the macintel
Vm is healthily it could be used to cross check answers from other VM  
implementations (aka windows/unix/Risc/PDA?)

So, hopefully in a few days we should have a VM available, til then  
be patient.


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