On May 10, 2011, at 12:27, Benjamin Fleischer wrote:

> Am 10.05.2011 um 18:16 schrieb Laurent Daudelin:
> 
>> 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 on Snow Leopard just to use the outdated Xcode 3 for development.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.
> 
> Interesting. Have you tried building something using the 10.5 SDK (PPC as 
> architecture) and verified that Xcode produced a valid PPC binary?

I can't remember if I specifically did that. That was when the first Lion 
preview came out. I think I did and checked with lipo and all architectures 
(i386, x86_64 and ppc) were there but I can't remember without a doubt.

-Laurent.
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