Am 10.05.2011 um 10:12 schrieb Erik Larsson: > Hi Benjamin, > > Benjamin Fleischer skrev 2011-05-10 10.03: >>>> Regarding 10.4 support, I'm all for dropping it. I'd also be in favor >>>> of dropping PPC support, as it has been a very long time since Apple >>>> shipped new PPC machines. It is true there are a reasonable number of >>>> folk out there still running them, but in terms of continued forward >>>> development I think it might make sense to consider whether or not PPC >>>> support is more of a hinderance for anyone doing dev& testing. >>> Is there any specific reason that you would like to drop PowerPC support? >>> Maintaining PowerPC support is virtually no work at all so it can safely >>> stay as long as 10.5 is supported. >>> It seems that many projects are dropping PowerPC support for no apparent >>> reason, and I'm not willing to be one of them. >> What about Xcode 4 dropping suport for PPC (including the native 10.5 SDK >> and 10.4 SDK)? Development would be stuck on Snow Leopard and Xcode 3 for >> the foreseeable future. > > Is Xcode 4 dropping support for 10.5 altogether? In that case I think I'd > rather be stuck with Xcode 3 at least for now. One can always move to Xcode 4 > when needed in the future, but right now I see no reason, only problems.
Xcode 4 still lets you select 10.5 and 10.4 as development targets but it only packs the 10.6 SDK. Therefore it won't produce PPC binaries. PPC binaries require the 10.5 SDK currently shipping with Xcode 3. I doubt that Apple will be supporting Xcode 3 on Lion which is just around the corner. Not everyone has access to several Macs running different versions of Mac OS X. I would really like to use Lion when it is released and not be stuck on Snow Leopard just to use the outdated Xcode 3 for development. Besides that the latest official builds of MacFUSE support PPC. Why not use those on PPC machines? Feature wise there is no difference. Granted, building filesystems also supporting PPC would be a bit harder if support for PPC is removed from MacFUSE. Regards, Benjamin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en.
