[maemo-developers] Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:43 AM, <Jarmo.Tikka at nokia.com> wrote:

>>One step forward and two steps back.
>
> Happy to see that you considered this Beta release to be at least one step forward (before ending up being one step backward :)
>

It's hardly every anything else with Nokia. :(

>>
>>No PPC binary, and the installer will happily chug right along
>>without telling users that they're installing something they
>>can't even use.
>
> Only x86 and 32-bit support with this beta release. Could you explain in more detailed your installation problems. E.g. do you try to install Windows XP or Windows Vista or Mac OS X 10.x or Debian Linux or some other Linux or ...
>

I don't use Windows, and, by and large, I don't use Linux.

> Or are you trying to install Mac flasher-3.5 to PPC Mac? I do not Mac myself well enoug to say if architecture can be defined to the Mac installation package so that you will get some sensible error message if you try to install "wrong" architecture binary.
>

Yes, because PPC OS X is basically the only thing I have access to on
a regular basis. Yes, you can tell the installer that it should check
the architecture. No, you shouldn't be doing that because you should
be compiling a PPC binary.