On 14 Dec 2011, at 4:24 PM, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>> In addition, there is no benefit in creating universal binaries, since they 
>> are very Darwin-specific and bring no benefit in this context.
> 
> There's a huge benefit of doing that. I do develop Mac apps, and FAT binaries 
> and libs makes the other apps referring to them to refer to single file path 
> regardless of architecture. So this is benefit for developers. Another 
> benefit is for Mac users, that they run single app regardless if they run on 
> PPC, i386 only Intel (first Intel Macs ?!) or latest 64-bit Macs.


I’ll second that: It makes AppleScripting easier too: Calling “R.app” always 
works, instead of every user having to customise scripts with their app version 
R64.app vs R.app

I work around this by deleting one binary and renaming R64 to R.app

Cheers,
tim

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