Re: mac osx
On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:01, Scott Chacon wrote:
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> Hey,
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Timothy Harper <timcharper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ever since installing OS X Lion and Xcode 4.1 it seems I have lost the ability to build targeting Leopard (see /Developer/SDKs/), and haven't looked in to a work around. I have only built packages targeting the Snow Leopard.
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>> I see two possible resolutions:
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>> A) Tag builds as 32-bit and 64-bit. At git-scm.com (and github), link to the list that only shows 32-bit builds. For 99.9% (pulled-out-of-butt) of people using the installer, this will be just fine. For people who care about 64 bit, if they are motivated they can build own or find it.
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>> B) Switch to universal architecture and cause everyone to suffer an addition 30% or so wait while downloading the installer.
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>> What do y'all vote for?
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> I vote for Universal builds. I don't think anyone downloading a DMG
> will care between 6M and 9M - it's still smaller than most YouTube
> videos. Then I can just have people choose their OS version and
> auto-download whatever the latest build is.
Ok, consider it done :). Going forward I will release Universal 32-bit / 64-bit.
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> Also, fwiw, though this is the first you may have heard about it, I've
> personally had probably 5 or 6 people approach me at conferences and
> trainings and complain about it - or email me as the maintainer of the
> git-scm page to complain. I probably should have brought it up
> sooner, but I've just been so happy you've been doing the builds at
> all, I didn't want to complain :)
>
> Scott
Timothy Harper <timcharper@gmail.com>