by TheLastProject » 14 Oct 2013, 12:56
As far as I remember, the main reason for no longer supporting PowerPC is due to Apple abandoning the platform itself and nobody in the community being able to compile and test such a version. I personally don't expect anyone to have a problem with this unofficial installer (the more players, the more fun), but due to the lack of testing I'd expect some resistance against putting it on a more visible point.
At any rate, I personally hope you'd stick around for longer and will be doing this more often. Red Eclipse 1.5 should be appearing sooner or later, and it'd be a shame if PPC Mac user support would be dropped yet again, both because it would leave users behind and because it would look harmful upon our community, due to PPC Mac users expecting support for future versions as well. If we can't supply that, we'll surely end up disappointing users and, with a bit of bad luck, end up with some badmouthing due to "a lack of care" while the main reason is simply that we do not have the resources to support PPC Mac users properly.
Don't take my word for it, though. This is something that's obviously better left to one of the heads of this project, which we'll hopefully see in this topic sooner or later. For what it's worth, even though your contribution is useless to me (as a GNU/Linux user), I appreciate your help towards giving more people a chance to enjoy Red Eclipse.
Hats, Afros, wings and raptor feet. This game is showing progress indeed.