On Jan 8, 2008, at 15:14, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
Even though I do believe that Universal building is a bit of a waste of space more often than not for most, I do buy into the simplicity such builds report for users that only have to go looking for a single download link. Maybe Markus could advise us on how we could achieve this through the MacPorts Portfile (sudo port dmg MacPorts)?
Why don't we instead change the base Makefile so that it builds universal (for 10.3.9 on PPC, for 10.4u on i386). That way, you get a universal build no matter how you do it, whether through the MacPorts Portfile, manually, or via selfupdate. This would also address Rainer's concerns from earlier, which may be a valid point (that selfupdate would make it non-universal again) (though I haven't tested whether this is really the case) (though I could see that it might be):
On Dec 28, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
But if you download an universal disk image; after the first selfupdate, which you normally do after install to get a newer minor version, you will end up with a single architecture - the one of your system. Why should disk images distribute a different version than selfupdate?