Re: fat binaries

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:24:16PM +1100, Gregory McGarry wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
>> I dislike the concept and from what I have seen on Mac OS/X, it brings 
>> a
>> lot of maintainance issues as well. For example, some libraries used by
>> the older bootstrap only existed for Intel and 32bit PPC at the time --
>> poff, fat binary building is broken.
>
> Are you agreeing with Andrew that a bytecode representation would be  
> better?  I'd be interested in hearing some ideas about that.

Depends on what you want to achieve. If your goal is to distribute
"binary" software to customers, it is one of the best options. On the
other hand, you have almost Java if you follow too much into that
direction.

Joerg