Comments on: Why Not A More Universal Binary? http://visnum.com/why-not-a-more-universal-binary/ The world badly needs an advice and that's why I am here Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:56:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bob/Paul http://visnum.com/why-not-a-more-universal-binary/#comment-776 Bob/Paul Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:19:04 +0000 http://visnum.com/why-not-a-more-universal-binary/#comment-776 They won't have a Universal Binary until the next Photoshop is released--CS2 still runs on emulation--there's no Cairo for Linux, many of the libraries are different, their existing build tools probably don't support it, etc. Apple moving to Intel doesn't make it anymore likely than it was before. Currently adobe has 2 groups working on Photoshop--one Windows and one OSX. Adding *nix support would pretty much necessitate a third group. I still think they should do it, but you should no the playing field hasn't changed... at all. They won’t have a Universal Binary until the next Photoshop is released–CS2 still runs on emulation–there’s no Cairo for Linux, many of the libraries are different, their existing build tools probably don’t support it, etc.

Apple moving to Intel doesn’t make it anymore likely than it was before. Currently adobe has 2 groups working on Photoshop–one Windows and one OSX. Adding *nix support would pretty much necessitate a third group. I still think they should do it, but you should no the playing field hasn’t changed… at all.

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