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: Andrew Satori <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:14:19 -0500
While thinning the apps really doesn't make sense since the binaries
in most cases accounts for a low percentage of the total package for
most applications, there are legitimate times where this would be
nice, in addition to one that that allows conditional installation on
version as well. As it is, I'm using Bash scripts to deal with these
issues, and I'm installing some useless fluff to deal with multiple
version/platform support.
Andy
On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
On Aug 10, 2006, at 18:49 , Robert Nicholson 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?
This has come up before on this and other lists. One prevalent
opinion is that, for a given app, the actual executable code (the
stuff that is architecture-dependent) is typically a small chunk of
the total size, so going to the effort of pruning the code doesn't
seem worth it. It should be pretty simple to check with a shell
script that looks for binaries and checks their size (with 'size',
not 'ls').
Also, my laptop sports a 100-GB drive, which seems to be up to the
task of holding a bunch of fat binaries without getting squeezed.
Justin
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