>> The problem is that this ancillary program is sometimes Intel-only, or >> sometimes PPC-only, while the main application is Universal. The use of this >> ancillary program is not mandatory, so displaying an error message, or using >> a fallback solution is acceptable. The issue is that trying to run an >> ancillary program on an unsupported architecture triggers a hard crash: > > Really?! That sounds like an OS bug. NSTask should just return some POSIX > error code if it can’t launch the process. What OS version is > this?
The user's PPC machine has 10.5.8, trying to run an Intel-only tool via NSTask. Old I know, but for now still supported by us. I just tried having my Intel machine/app run a PPC tool via NSTask, and that brings up the Rosetta info/warning dialog and doesn't crash the parent app. So perhaps this has already been corrected to be handled more gracefully. Well, I'm still stuck getting this working for older machines. ~Martin _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
