On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Michael Moore wrote:
David, we very definitely need someone to investigate producing a Universal Binary for version 0.44; I cannot see my way to doing anything about it.
There is a request in the tracker for Universal binaries, please add a comment if you have time. I marked it very low priority since despite being something we'd all like in theory, it is highly dependant on the availability of hardware and developers and we'd be very lucky for it to happen at all.
What would building the Universal binary entail? Would the machine be needed just for the build, or would it be needed for extended testing?
Would I just need to follow the same instructions as on this page? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX I've never packaged before, though I'm familiar with fink on PPC (my wife has a Mac).
I guess what I'm saying is that I can probably get access to the hardware if someone is willing to do a bit of hand-holding.
See the mail I was writing as you posted this, since it answers a few questions. In theory, the machine would mostly just be needed for the builds, but at the beginning I imagine a fair amout of testing too. Especially as bug reports come in for the Intel version.
Unfortunately there are no documented instructions for building a Universal version of Mac because none of us have ever done it. (They would obviously be documented once we had the procedure worked out.)
For creating a Universal binary I suspect we need better access to a machine than what you could offer though friends computers, but thankyou anyway.
Having said this, you could just follow the instuctions on the CompilingMacOsX wiki page to just build a version for Intel using any Intel based Mac -- it's exactly the same process as for a PPC Mac, though your friends would need to give you admin rights to install the relevant fink dependencies (or do it themselves).
Cheers, Michael