Thanks for the info. We'd only consider doing it for our embedded
installation - where the database will really never be moved off that
particular machine... but even that does make for some problems down the
track.


Philippe Makowski wrote:

> Peter Lee [09-06-23 15.20] :
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>> I'm just wondering if there are any plans to produce universal binaries
>> for Mac OSX?
>>
> no
> And don't forget that next OSX (10.6) will not be available for PPC
> but only for Intel, and full 64 bits
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>> I presume that any databases used with PPC portion would
>> have to have been created on PPC etc, so is it a bit risky to have a
>> universal binary given the potential for user confusion?
>>
>> Has anybody successfully used lipo to stitch together PPC and Intel
>> binaries?
>>
> I used lipo to stich together 32 and 64 bits Intel clients libs but nothing else.
> It worked well for using Flamerobin with a 64bits setup of Firebird.
> But Python get sometimes confused about that, so I gave up.
> In fact I think that universal binary for Firebird Server would be a bad choice.
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