Peter,
On 2006 Oct 4 , at 14.41, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> However, looking through that and the
> reference you found, it makes you wonder how difficult it would be to
> create a universal binary, including i386 support, on a 10.4 ppc
> machine.
> I expect there are some not immediately obvious gotchas.
Probably some gotchas indeed, but I think the result ends up looking
significantly better on OS X, for minimal expenditure of
boilerplate. But of course, it's not me doing it, nor volunteering,
and I only mention this to log it. Mark does this with TOPCAT,
though he's managed to avoid the native library issue in that case.
Given that the appropriate mac-ppc and mac-intel native libraries are
checked in, as they probably ought to be, it shouldn't make any
difference which flavour of Mac is used. Also, if a particular OS X
file were also checked in (a small JRE launcher), it would be
possible to assemble the .app target on any platform, not just OS X,
then zip it up for distribution.
See you,
Norman
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