Time to drop PowerPC support from our Mac binaries?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Our Mac OS X Nmap installer currently includes "universal" binaries
which (should) work on both PowerPC and X86 architectures.  But maybe
it is time to drop PowerPC and ship an x86-only installer instead?  It
seems that Apple stopped selling PowerPC machines in 2006, and OS X
versions they stopped making new operating systems available for
PowerPC as of x86-only OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) in August 2009.

Going x86-only would dramatically decrease the Mac package size
(5.99BETA1 is currently 29 megabytes).  And PowerPC users could still
use older Nmap releases.  If they can deal with using a 5+-year-old
machine and a 2+-year-old operating system, they can probably deal
with using an older Nmap.

Does anyone here use newer versions of Nmap on a PowerPC Mac?  Unless
I hear a strong argument for keeping it, we'll probably remove PowerPC
support in the next release.

Cheers,
Fyodor

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