[PD] fat binaries or not, on OSX (was: 'Pd 64 bits' for OSX is i386 + ppc)

[katja]

If Pd externals could be built for PDP11, I would support it in
Makefile.pdlibbuilder.

Even when very few people still use Apple ppc it's nice to be able to
support it. But not at the expense of other platforms of course. If
you (or anyone else) encounter specific problems when building on OSX
10.5 because of the ppc target architecture, please report on
https://github.com/pure-data/pd-lib-builder. On later OSX versions it
won't try to build for ppc so for most people this goes unnoticed.

If instead you object to the distribution of combined ppc/intel
binaries via deken, that is a different matter going beyond discussion
of the makefile.

Katja

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> My 2 cents:
>
> Honestly, I *really* wouldn’t bother with maintaining ppc support anymore.
> 10.5 was released in Oct of 2007, that’s 6 versions ago and 99.9% of people
> running OSX are not running ppc. I understand the desire to support it, but
> those people can use older versions of Pd. Without going down the “Apple
> forces planned obsolesce, blah blah” fest again, the practical matter is
> that the need for OSX ppc is so small I feel developer effort is best spent
> elsewhere. Besides, if I were resurrecting an old Power PC G5 Mac Pro, I’d
> install Debian on it anyway.
>
> OTOH, if you personally have an old Powerbook and want to keep Pd on it up
> to date, go for it! I’m just suggesting, if that’s not the case, it may not
> be worth the extra time and effort.
>
> --------
> Dan Wilcox
> @danomatika
> danomatika.com
> robotcowboy.com
>
> On Dec 15, 2015, at 4:00 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>
> On 'recent' OSX (>= 10.6) Makefile.pdlibbuilder builds i386 / x86_64
> by default, no ppc. For OSX 10.5 the default includes ppc which was
> still supported at that time. OSX 10.5 can build the fattest binaries
> out of the box. But I didn't include ppc 64 bit (yet) as I've never
> had an opportunity to test that.
>
>