[Qt-creator] Mac Creator is now Intel only?

[Stephen Chu]

So I just had this surprise last night when I downloaded and tried to 
install the beta on my trusty old little iBook G4, and find that big 
white circle and slash overlay on the Creator icon.

Yes, the beta binary is Intel-only. It contains both x86 and x86_64 but 
no PPC.

I then find out PPC is supported in the form of built-it-yourself way. 
the reason given is to limit the download size. I posted some comment on 
Qt blog and I'll repeat it here:

<http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/05/06/qt-creator-20-beta/#comment-2
6168>

The choice of x88 and x86_64 doesn¹t make much sense to me. Yes, I 
understand the need to limit the download and support effort. And yes, 
as a developer I also understand being at the cutting edge is cool. But 
people with any of the x86 boxes can run 32-bit x86. There¹s no Macs 
that require 64-bit apps. And Creator itself doesn¹t really benefit from 
64-bit code, if at all. We don¹t edit source files that are larger than 
4GB. And all the compiling and linking are done with executable external 
to Creator execution space anyway.

The point is, your choice of including only x86 and x86_64 covers only 
x86 family of Macs, leaving out all of the PPC Macs. With x86 and PPC, 
you allow all Macs to use the app without losing anything.

-- 
Stephen Chu