I had the message translated for us by the French translators (kudos to Frans Gifford):
"You recommend Vindaloo as a PDF reader for OSX, but the suggested binary is compiled for PPC, and recent OSX versions no longer include Rosetta, and so only accept applications compiled for Intel. Simply put, the referring hyperlink points to an ugly page, without explanation, and we download an application that doesn't work.
There is also Skim, under the BSD licence. http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/index.html
In any case, under OSX things are skewed. The display renderer uses PDF, and there is a Cocoa widget for displaying PDF. It's integrated (seen as the default PDF reader) and thus as proprietary as the OS.
M."
I have written to Mathieu and told him we would consider what to do.
Skim is obviously irrelevant because of the problems listed.
However, what shall we do with Vindaloo? It seems to me that it has not been maintained since 2005. Personally I propose removing it altogether. (In the future we should probably publish eligibility guidelines for being listed on pdfreaders.org and they should include maintenance.)
Regardless of what we decide to do with Vindaloo, we should still be looking for a solution for OS X users. I am not aware of any free readers for OS X we do not have listed, and none that we have listed offers binaries for OS X. Should we try contacting the developers of readers supporting OS X and ask whether one of them can provide binaries? (Furthermore, as part of the revamp, maybe we should make it clear whether a program is available as a binary because most computer users do not wish to compile their software from source?)
Any thoughts? The outlook for OS X users is pretty damn bleak.
Cheers,