From: Timothy Harper Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:09:39 GMT Subject: Re: mac osx Message-ID: <2BD212E4-8862-47C1-9D1E-7771B61933B9@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:01, Scott Chacon wrote: > Hey, > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Timothy Harper 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. >> >> I see two possible resolutions: >> >> 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. >> >> B) Switch to universal architecture and cause everyone to suffer an addition 30% or so wait while downloading the installer. >> >> What do y'all vote for? > > 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. > > 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 Tim