Re: mac osx

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2011, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP2yMaLCu6epGkFOEOsfPgmUodCiBYRePLtewEmny1Z3W5D=QA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3509B3CD-8E7E-4097-B7F1-F092E5CF08F5@gmail.com>

Hey,

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Timothy Harper <timcharper@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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?

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.

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