From: Timothy Harper <timcharper@gmail.com>
To: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Cc: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Kyle Neath <kneath@gmail.com>, tom smitts <tomsmitts@ymail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac osx
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:09:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2BD212E4-8862-47C1-9D1E-7771B61933B9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2yMaLCu6epGkFOEOsfPgmUodCiBYRePLtewEmny1Z3W5D=QA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:01, Scott Chacon wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Timothy Harper <timcharper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ever since installing OS X Lion and Xcode 4.1 it seems I have lost the ability to build targeting Leopard (see /Developer/SDKs/), and haven't looked in to a work around. I have only built packages targeting the Snow Leopard.
>>
>> I see two possible resolutions:
>>
>> A) Tag builds as 32-bit and 64-bit. At git-scm.com (and github), link to the list that only shows 32-bit builds. For 99.9% (pulled-out-of-butt) of people using the installer, this will be just fine. For people who care about 64 bit, if they are motivated they can build own or find it.
>>
>> B) Switch to universal architecture and cause everyone to suffer an addition 30% or so wait while downloading the installer.
>>
>> What do y'all vote for?
>
> I vote for Universal builds. I don't think anyone downloading a DMG
> will care between 6M and 9M - it's still smaller than most YouTube
> videos. Then I can just have people choose their OS version and
> auto-download whatever the latest build is.
Ok, consider it done :). Going forward I will release Universal 32-bit / 64-bit.
>
> Also, fwiw, though this is the first you may have heard about it, I've
> personally had probably 5 or 6 people approach me at conferences and
> trainings and complain about it - or email me as the maintainer of the
> git-scm page to complain. I probably should have brought it up
> sooner, but I've just been so happy you've been doing the builds at
> all, I didn't want to complain :)
>
> Scott
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-21 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-20 22:40 mac osx tom smitts
2011-09-20 22:53 ` Graham Christensen
2011-09-20 23:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-21 3:40 ` Kyle Neath
2011-09-21 9:34 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-21 12:52 ` Timothy Harper
2011-09-21 14:58 ` Scott Chacon
2011-09-21 15:41 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-21 15:42 ` Stephen Bash
2011-09-21 17:49 ` Timothy Harper
2011-09-21 18:01 ` Scott Chacon
2011-09-21 18:09 ` Timothy Harper [this message]
2011-09-21 9:44 ` Sverre Rabbelier
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