[Design] Identifying the Intel-Mac build

[Robin Dunn]

Mike Taylor wrote:
> 
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:
> 
>> On 18 Jul, 2006, at 12:36, Pieter Hartsook wrote:
>>
>>> I was trying to think of a way to update the Chandler website about
>>> what's new in alpha3. One thing that's new is native Intel support for
>>> the Mac. But as far as I know there in no visible difference between
>>> the Intel build and previous Mac builds.
>>>
>>> Maybe we could either add a note to the About Chandler box stating
>>> this is a native Intel build for the Mac, and/or add something to the
>>> splash-screen when the program loads?
>>
>> I'm not really the engineering contact for this kind of thing, but it 
>> looks to me as if tweaking the splash screen (and/or the About 
>> Chandler box) to show something platform and/or architecture specific 
>> is mainly a testing issue (i.e. the code changes aren't hard). Another 
>> option might be a way to change the app's version string to include 
>> extra info, though I'm not so familiar with how the build system 
>> produces the version string.
> 
> I would be hesitant to change the version string just for the simple 
> reason that it is currently platform agnostic and would love to keep it 
> that way :)
> 
> What I did do is update the About Box to display a platform string under 
> the version number - the modified code is attached to bug 6271
> 
>     http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6271

Your patch will display "intel" for PPC platforms too.  Looks like a 
copy/paste error.

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