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Re: Time to drop PowerPC support from our Mac binaries?
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:56:52 -0700
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 04:00:14PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
Our Mac OS X Nmap installer currently includes "universal" binaries which (should) work on both PowerPC and X86 architectures. But maybe it is time to drop PowerPC and ship an x86-only installer instead? It seems that Apple stopped selling PowerPC machines in 2006, and OS X versions they stopped making new operating systems available for PowerPC as of x86-only OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) in August 2009. Going x86-only would dramatically decrease the Mac package size (5.99BETA1 is currently 29 megabytes). And PowerPC users could still use older Nmap releases. If they can deal with using a 5+-year-old machine and a 2+-year-old operating system, they can probably deal with using an older Nmap. Does anyone here use newer versions of Nmap on a PowerPC Mac? Unless I hear a strong argument for keeping it, we'll probably remove PowerPC support in the next release.
I'll try doing an x86-only release. I think it is possible to build dual x86/x86_64 binaries, but that doesn't make the build process any easier than it is now, and wouldn't make the packages any smaller. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- Time to drop PowerPC support from our Mac binaries? Fyodor (Jul 29)
- Re: Time to drop PowerPC support from our Mac binaries? Knightmare (Jul 31)
- Re: Time to drop PowerPC support from our Mac binaries? Claudio Moretti (Jul 31)
- Re: Time to drop PowerPC support from our Mac binaries? David Fifield (Aug 01)