Platypus dropped PPC

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Sep 16 00:22:23 PDT 2012


On 2012-9-16 17:10 , Andrea D'Amore wrote:
> Platypus [1] has dropped PowerPC support in latest version:
>   The latest version is Platypus 4.7. Platypus and Platypus-generated
> applications require Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and are Intel only
> 32-bit/64-bit fat binaries. For a version that runs on 10.4 and
> PowerPC, press the "Old Versions" link below and get version 4.4
> 
> While upgrading to 4.7 [2] is it advisable to keep a platypus44 port
> for PPC users?
> 
> 
> [1] http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/

The link indicates that it also requires Xcode 4 to build, which may be
an even bigger issue since it rules out x86 systems running < 10.6 (and
many/most running 10.6) as well.

- Josh


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