The PowerPC Mac development thread!

[AphoticD]

Is this accurate? I thought you could have any number of binaries, not limited to just 4. When I have time, I might just try to lipo together some ppc, ppc7400, ppc7450, ppc750, x86_32, and x86_64 code together just to see if it could work with all 6.

I think if I were a developer I'd try to make my osx app in multiple binaries optimized for many architectures, so a single app could run on anything from 10.0 to 10.15:
ppc - 10.0-10.5
ppc7400 - 10.4-10.5
ppc7450 - 10.4-10.5
ppc750 - 10.5
x86_32 - 10.6-10.14
x86_64 - 10.8+

I'm pretty sure this is doable, if not easy or optimal. Still, I think it would be very Mac-like to just offer a single download for any osx version.

I like your thinking.

There are a lot of frameworks and features not found in 10.5 and older which can make sharing a common codebase across multiple OS versions quite difficult, unless you elect to write your own, which is quite possible.

I don’t think App Store submissions with PowerPC code would be accepted though.

 

[z970]

I don’t think App Store submissions with PowerPC code would be accepted though.

"Because Tim says we're obsolete." ...

 

[reukiodo]

I don’t think App Store submissions with PowerPC code would be accepted though.

That's not something I'm even remotely interested in...

Apple's insistence on getting iOS apps only through their app store is the main reason I am entirely uninterested in iOS.

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of app stores, with easy-to-find new apps and a central location and mechanism for app updates. It's just that I think that Google and to some extent even Microsoft actually do a much better job of managing one, not policing it. Case in point, Apple would not likely accept an app with ppc code, even if the x86 code ran without issues.

 

[sanfrancisofont1984]

I know this is an old thread. I recently started to be interested in similar things. My take is that universal is cool but it is not necessarily that important today; releasing separate binaries for different architecture is fine.

Therefore, unless one has a powerful PPC machine. One could use Snow Leopard, Xcode 3, GC disabled (they had tracing GC briefly before moving to ARC) as a starting point.

 

[timidpimpin]

Jordan XP threads... just what we need.