Hi Peter,
Thanks for this feedback.
I remember when Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel that they had kind
of compatibility/abstraction layer that allowed old software to work on
the new intel platform. Are there similar plans with the switch to arm?
Andreas
Am 24.06.20 um 11:53 schrieb Peter Petrik:
Hi,
As building on iOS already works
(https://github.com/lutraconsulting/input-sdk/tree/master/ios), I
imagine it would be possible to run another architecture build for
MacOS with a similar approach. It is in Apple's interest to facilitate
transition to developers. To evaluate how hard it would be, that is
more tricky at this point. First of all, Qt has to support this new
architecture, I haven't found a statement from them yet if they plan
it and when. So even Qt supports it (hopefully from Qt5 releases and
not Qt6), we have to build all the deps with the new architecture,
which takes some time to create recipes. And of course find a hardware
where it all can be built (probably another machine , yes). Not saying
that it is very frustrating to do development of such a new package if
you do not own such hardware yourself...
P.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:33 AM Régis Haubourg
<regis.haubo...@gmail.com <mailto:regis.haubo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Andreas,
I'm also worried about this move.
But one way to forward the cost to Apple is now to stop buying macs.
Sorry to troll, but the vendor lockin' nightmare they are building
is not of the same nature as of the powerpc era.
I sold mine because they stopped to support it though it worked
very well on the hardware side. And switching to linux on Mac is
made hard on purpose.. > never again for me, even if they do
really good stuff.
I found in LENOVO some durable hardware, easy to repair, hardware
that works nicely and avoid me to trash a working computer.
Best
Régis
Le mer. 24 juin 2020 à 11:11, Andreas Neumann <a.neum...@carto.net
<mailto:a.neum...@carto.net>> a écrit :
Hi all, esp. Peter,
So I wonder what the new announcement of Apple switching
everything from Intel to arm architecture will mean for our
project? According to Apple they will switch all of their
devices to arm over the next 2 years.
Will it be a lot of work to adapt the build system to the new
processor architecture? It will probably mean that we will
need an additional Mac build server for arm architecture in
our infrastructure and will have to provide packages for both
systems for many years to come ...
Not so nice for us as a project - can we forward these costs
to Apple for that move?
Greetings,
Andreas
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