[Design] PPC versus Intel Mac

[Grant Baillie]

On 22 Feb, 2007, at 12:52, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Meaning the same download would work on both PPC and Intel Macs?

Yes. The costs are:

- The download would be close to a factor of 2 bigger
- There's a potentially large amount of work to jigger the build  
system to create universal binaries.

> Would this solve the Dump and Reload problem as well?

No: that's a result of the Berkeley DB "file format" being different  
on different processors.

--Grant

> Mimi
>
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:46 PM, John Anderson wrote:
>
>> Most Mactintosh applications ship universal binaries to avoid this  
>> confusion. We could do the same.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Mimi Yin wrote:
>>> I'm concerned about our usage of PPC versus Intel to  
>>> differentiate between the different Chandler builds users need to  
>>> download. A few questions come to mind:
>>>
>>> 1. Do users know that PPC versus Intel are essentially 2  
>>> different platforms?
>>> 2. Are users familiar with the terminology: PPC versus Intel?
>>>
>>> Are there other words we can use instead of PPC versus Intel?
>>>
>>> MacBook versus iBook and and PowerBook
>>> ...But what about desktop machines?
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Mimi
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