andymatuschak/Sparkle — Issue #84: Don't show Intel-only updates to PPC apps
Author: andymatuschak
Created: 2011-10-23 17:14:42+00:00
State: open

***Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak)** [reported (on Launchpad)](https://bugs.launchpad.net/sparkle/+bug/686657) on' 2010-12-07:*

We should have a flag for Intel-only updates to apps which were once
universal.

"I sometimes learn of "an update' to existing software and download it
automatically, only to find it is not compatible with my PowerPC Mac.
But the new update has deleted the existing software. Then I must locate
the old version and download that one again. It should be simple to
provide a setting that causes an alert page to remind us to check the
(provided) new program description to learn if it were Intel only BEFORE
installation. Automatic compatibility screening would be even better,
but perhaps too much to ask."