[PD] Pd Gem versions summary

[Peter P.]

Some more clarification is needed when making a deken search for Gem
on OS X 10.6.8 with a 32bit kernel from within 64bit Pd. I am not even
sure if this very constellation is possible.

Deken lists 
    Gem/0.94 (deken-archive for macOS Intel/64bit (macOS10.12+))
and
    Gem/0.94 (deken-archive for old OSX>10.6 PowerPC/Intel32bit/Intel64bit)

Is the first one for versions larger than 10.12 only and the second
one for all versions up to 10.6.* ?

On my 10.6.8 box the first one does not load with a dlopen error. The
second one loads, so I assume that it is for OS X 10.6.* and above.

But is this latter Gem binary 32 or 64bit? I only found out it is a
Universal Binary.

...scratching my bald head...

thanks!
P

* Peter P. <peterparker at fastmail.com> [2019-05-18 10:57]:
> Just a quick question about Gem installable via Deken on OS X.
> 
> The "Find externals" search on a 10.6.8 os lists Gem/0.94 with the comment
>         "deken-archive for old OSX>10.6 PowerPC/Intel32bit/Intel64bit
> 
> Shouldn't that be
>         "...old OSX<10.6...."
> ?
> 
> To what extend does deken filter search results according to
> individual os and/or cpu version or architecture?
> 
> Then http://puredata.info/downloads/gem/releases/0.94 indicates the
> presence of an os x binary of Gem 
>         0.94deken-archive for macOS Intel/64bit (macOS10.12+) 
> 
> I am obviously confused with the difference in
>         32/64bit CPUs
>         32/64bit OS
>         32/64bit of Pd binaries
> and their relation to
>         32/64bit external pd libraries. And wonder which version of Pd
> AND Gem to install on all versions of OS X upwards from 10.6.
> 
> There does not seem to be single location with this information, I
> checked
> http://puredata.info/downloads/gem/releases/0.94
> http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html
> http://gem.iem.at/
> but perhaps I am missing something.
> 
> I would like to compile this information in order to say that 
> 
> On all(?) versions of Windows on a 64bit CPU I install the 64bit binary of Pd
>     pd-0.49-0
> On all(?) versions of Windows on a 32bit CPU I install the 32bit binary of Pd
>     pd-0.49-0-i386
> Or does it matter if the Windows itself was compiled with 32 or 64 bit?
> 
> On OS X 10.6 or later I install the 64bit binary of Pd
>     pd-0.49-1
> On all(?) OS X versions on 32bit CPUs I install the 32bit
>     pd-0.49-1-i386
> but I can/have to install this on 64bit CPUs as well if I want to load
> 32bit externals, right?
> 
> Now if the above is true, which Gem version and architecture would
> correspond to the above cases?
> 
> Thank you for all insights!
> P