> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:57 PM, SevenBits <sevenbitst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> wrote: >> >> On 21 Jan 2016, at 10:45 AM, Aandi Inston <aa...@quite.com> wrote: >>> >>> So far as I can see, all recent Mac OS systems are 64-bit on 64-bit >>> hardware and can run an app shipped in 64-bit only. And 32-bit continues to >>> run fine. >>> >>> But what about the future? Perhaps we can only speculate about whether >>> 32-bit apps will be deprecated, but maybe Apple have started to hint that >>> 32-bit has a limited lifetime? It's a question of prioritising work on old >>> apps, and what will happen to our customers with older apps in future. >>> Let's assume Cocoa has been weeded out of the apps already. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your speculations (or more solid facts!) >> >> The people with solid facts don’t hang around on mailing lists like this, >> and would be fired if they responded. Apple does not comment on its plans. >> What we do know is this: >> >> We have more than hints. Apple has steadily increased the incentives for >> third-party developers to drop 32-bit products. But it hasn’t even >> deprecated it, much less cut it off. Unless I had to accommodate a market >> (like education) that hangs onto hardware for a very long time, I’d never >> consider anything but 64 bits. >> >> Apple itself has a harder decision, because it doesn’t want to break >> developers’ remaining 32-bit products. (Add the “Kind” column to Activity >> Monitor to see what I mean.) >> >> All we can know is that deprecation will come no sooner than June (10.12 >> Tehachapi), withdrawal no sooner than June of 2017 (10.13 San Quentin). > > Unrelated, but… are these the official code names?
Well, not anymore. :) John. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
