[X4U] No PowerPC Apps Will Run Under Lion!

[David Ledger]

At 18:37 -0500 28/2/11, Michael Burton wrote:
>On Feb 28, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Robert Ameeti responded to my 
>Applescript to find PPC-only programs:
>>  Why suggest a quick-n-dirty AppleScript that won't look 
>>everywhere, and that some may question what it might 'do' to their 
>>computer. (AppleScripts can 'do' things and if an AppleScript 
>>'does' something that we really didn't want it to do, we have a 
>>reason to be upset)
>
>That's a good thought. I hadn't realized that System Profiler 
>displayed the code type -- in fact, I couldn't see it until I 
>resized the window and dragged some column dividers, but it's 
>clearly a better way to identify all PowerPC programs.
>
>I hope nobody was concerned that my Applescript was malicious. I 
>thought that posting the text of the script and allowing everyone to 
>see for themselves exactly what it's doing would let people run it 
>with confidence.

Applescript is very easy for a human to read so I don't think anyone 
who would "question what it might 'do' to their computer" would be 
worried for longer than it takes to read the script. The challenge of 
Applescript is writing it.

David


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