Deploying NeoOffice on Multiple Architectures

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or, why there are no Universal Binaries of NeoOffice and how to work around it

When Apple switched processor architectures for the third time, from PowerPC to Intel x86, the migration was eased by the old Apple and NeXT concepts of "fat" applications or Universal Binaries. All the code required to run on each processor is shipped in a combined executable, so users only have to deal with a single, albeit large, application, no matter what kind of Mac they have.

Unfortunately, there are technical and resource limitations that prevent shipping NeoOffice as a Universal Binary. NeoOffice's underlying

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