[Project_owners] Re: install.js and OSX

[Philip Chee]

On Tue, 09 May 2006 08:39:25 +0900, Gerald Vogt wrote:
> Philip Chee wrote:

>> In install.js I know I can use Install.platform to detect what the OS is
>> (Darwin/Win32/Linux). But how to differenciate between Darwin/PPC and
>> Darwin/x86? Note: I don't have a Mac of any sort so please don't say
>> "suck it and see".

> Well, from the source code I would say it does not know about x86 yet:

> http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpinstall/src/nsInstall.cpp#326

> It just seems to be "Macintosh; PPC". The PPC is fixed coded for 
> Macintosh. And I can tell you that Firefox reports PPC in its credits on 
> an Intel iMac. I would say nobody changed that, yet, or better bothered 
> to figure out whether it runs on Intel or PPC Mac.

Grrr. On the Firefox side of things there is support for platform
specific installs in {install.rdf|chrome.manifest}. I guess nobody using
Suite/SeaMonkey ever tests extensions on MacIntels.

Phil
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