[R-SIG-Mac] How to make Mac 64-bit version feature complete?

[Timothy Bates]

On 14 Dec 2011, at 4:24 PM, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>> In addition, there is no benefit in creating universal binaries, since they are very Darwin-specific and bring no benefit in this context.
> 
> There's a huge benefit of doing that. I do develop Mac apps, and FAT binaries and libs makes the other apps referring to them to refer to single file path regardless of architecture. So this is benefit for developers. Another benefit is for Mac users, that they run single app regardless if they run on PPC, i386 only Intel (first Intel Macs ?!) or latest 64-bit Macs.


I’ll second that: It makes AppleScripting easier too: Calling “R.app” always works, instead of every user having to customise scripts with their app version R64.app vs R.app

I work around this by deleting one binary and renaming R64 to R.app

Cheers,
tim