Re: Why doesn't Apple's installer let me choose architecture?
Re: Why doesn't Apple's installer let me choose architecture?
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Apple's installer let me choose architecture?
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:42:50 -0700
On 11 août 06, at 04:39, Ricky Sharp wrote:
On Thursday, August 10, 2006, at 10:56PM, Robert Nicholson <email@hidden
> wrote:
If there was a place to decide what architectures you want to install
then Installer.app would be it. So why given the increasing
popularity of laptops with small drives doesn't apple incorporate the
ability to choose installation architectures for any package in their
Installer app?
First, this question would be better suited on "tools" lists such as
the xcode one.
Secondly, what kind of space would you be saving? The size of the
actual application binary in my app (currently containing only 2
components: 32-bit Intel and 32-bit PPC), is trivial as compared to
all the rest of the files in the app bundle (nibs, images, etc.).
Furthermore, it's nice to have all architectures in the app since
users can then migrate the app easily to new machines.
installer-dev mailing list would be indeed more appropriate.
Actually Apple did provide a flag to let you decide whether you want
to install FAT binaries or not but this only worked with NeXTStep.
While this flag has been present on OS X it has never been supported.
It was one of the "funny" surprise of the Intel Transition.
Your final conclusion is the one which was chosen as an reasonable
explanation by Apple.
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