If Pd externals could be built for PDP11, I would support it in Makefile.pdlibbuilder.
Even when very few people still use Apple ppc it's nice to be able to support it. But not at the expense of other platforms of course. If you (or anyone else) encounter specific problems when building on OSX 10.5 because of the ppc target architecture, please report on https://github.com/pure-data/pd-lib-builder. On later OSX versions it won't try to build for ppc so for most people this goes unnoticed.
If instead you object to the distribution of combined ppc/intel binaries via deken, that is a different matter going beyond discussion of the makefile.
Katja
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com wrote:
My 2 cents:
Honestly, I *really* wouldn’t bother with maintaining ppc support anymore. 10.5 was released in Oct of 2007, that’s 6 versions ago and 99.9% of people running OSX are not running ppc. I understand the desire to support it, but those people can use older versions of Pd. Without going down the “Apple forces planned obsolesce, blah blah” fest again, the practical matter is that the need for OSX ppc is so small I feel developer effort is best spent elsewhere. Besides, if I were resurrecting an old Power PC G5 Mac Pro, I’d install Debian on it anyway.
OTOH, if you personally have an old Powerbook and want to keep Pd on it up to date, go for it! I’m just suggesting, if that’s not the case, it may not be worth the extra time and effort.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika danomatika.com robotcowboy.com
On Dec 15, 2015, at 4:00 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
On 'recent' OSX (>= 10.6) Makefile.pdlibbuilder builds i386 / x86_64 by default, no ppc. For OSX 10.5 the default includes ppc which was still supported at that time. OSX 10.5 can build the fattest binaries out of the box. But I didn't include ppc 64 bit (yet) as I've never had an opportunity to test that.