I don't understand your reasoning why "separate binaries make more sense." I don't recall the previous Pd & Pd-extended ppc / i386 / x86_64 mac builds being a major issue.
Not long ago, we had separate Vanilla binaries for i386 / x86_64 mac builds in Miller's site. There was a consideration that the 'i386' was there to run 'old i386 externals'. I think something like that makes sense. I can see people being thrown off by downloading the app and then not finding much externals and asking around.
If you are referring to external support, yes most externals need to be recompiled as fat x86_64 / arm, then they are good to go for the foreseeable future.
yeah, recompiling should be the main concern. I'm currently using mac intel machines running 10.14.6, so I'm still not ready to compile for apple silicon, but I'll install a newer system so I can do this now that the binary is out there. Hopefully someone can compile the current last versions of Cyclone and ELSE and help me with that by giving them to me so I can upload them to deken (it seems someone was doing that for Cyclone just now). Anyway, I'll also take the opportunity to ship new releases of Cyclone and ELSE before I can update my system to compile modern fat binaries in a week or so.
cheers
Message: 3Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 02:06:39 -0300From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>To: Christof Ressi <info@christofressi.com>Cc: pd-list@lists.iem.atSubject: Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd 0.52-2 releasedMessage-ID: <CAEAsFmghrVft77FiXSKAko=-puxa=Zd=pVL-BNQbujWvZh=kdQ@mail.gmail.com>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Em ter., 29 de mar. de 2022 ?s 11:12, Christof Ressi <info@christofressi.com>escreveu:From my understanding, yes. For that reason, I guess it's not a good idea
to provide universal binaries at this point and we should rather ship
seperate binaries. Once most externals are available as universal binaries,
we might ship Pd as a universal binary as well.
Of course, you can always force apps to run under Rosetta, but I don'tthink that's a good user experience.
I agree, separate binaries makes more sense these days.