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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
