Different dmgs for different felines

Juan Manuel Palacios jmpp at macports.org
Thu Jan 10 07:35:55 PST 2008


On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 15:14, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>
>> Even though I do believe that Universal building is a bit of a  
>> waste of space more often than not for most, I do buy into the  
>> simplicity such builds report for users that only have to go  
>> looking for a single download link. Maybe Markus could advise us on  
>> how we could achieve this through the MacPorts Portfile (sudo port  
>> dmg MacPorts)?
>
> Why don't we instead change the base Makefile so that it builds  
> universal (for 10.3.9 on PPC, for 10.4u on i386). That way, you get  
> a universal build no matter how you do it, whether through the  
> MacPorts Portfile, manually, or via selfupdate. This would also  
> address Rainer's concerns from earlier, which may be a valid point  
> (that selfupdate would make it non-universal again)


	That's a very good suggestion, Ryan, thanks! Nevertheless, as I'm a  
bit out of time for the moment, I can't help employing Open Source's  
most enjoyable principle: care to propose a patch? ;-)

	Regards,...


-jmpp



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