Re: Why doesn't Apple's installer let me choose architecture?

FROM : Stephane Sudre
DATE : Mon Aug 14 22:42:50 2006

On 11 août 06, at 04:39, Ricky Sharp wrote:

>
> On Thursday, August 10, 2006, at 10:56PM, Robert Nicholson <<email_removed>
> > wrote:
>

>> If there was a place to decide what architectures you want to install
>> then Installer.app would be it. So why given the increasing
>> popularity of laptops with small drives doesn't apple incorporate the
>> ability to choose installation architectures for any package in their
>> Installer app?

>
> First, this question would be better suited on "tools" lists such as 
> the xcode one.
>
> Secondly, what kind of space would you be saving?  The size of the 
> actual application binary in my app (currently containing only 2 
> components: 32-bit Intel and 32-bit PPC), is trivial as compared to 
> all the rest of the files in the app bundle (nibs, images, etc.).
>
> Furthermore, it's nice to have all architectures in the app since 
> users can then migrate the app easily to new machines.


installer-dev mailing list would be indeed more appropriate.

Actually Apple did provide a flag to let you decide whether you want 
to install FAT binaries or not but this only worked with NeXTStep. 
While this flag has been present on OS X it has never been supported. 
It was one of the "funny" surprise of the Intel Transition.

Your final conclusion is the one which was chosen as an reasonable 
explanation by Apple.