I think that PPC and 10.5 support should be phased out, PPC code frozen at the current state - or branched off.
MacFUSE development should follow the Lion/Xcode4 path. On 5/10/11 12:16 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > On May 10, 2011, at 04:29, Benjamin Fleischer wrote: > >> 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 Snow Leopard just to use the outdated Xcode 3 for development.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. > Booted under Lion that was on an external disk, I was able to user Xcode > 3.2.6 from my internal Snow Leopard startup disk and it seemed to work fine. > But when I tried to initially install it under Lion, it wouldn't work. So, it > seems that if you get it installed before booting under Lion, you are able to > use it. > > -Laurent. -- Regards, Mouse -- 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.
