On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Chris Idou idou...@yahoo.com wrote:
I had a 50,000 line Cocoa program, and I thought about restricting it to
Intel for that reason, but then I thought heck, I'll build it universal and
throw it out there. Not a single bug reported due to PPC, and a few happy
On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Dominic Blais wrote:
Thank you for these responses! I think we will roll out with PowerPC but
EOL support for it within 6 months of the next major Apple OS release.
hi-
VVI stopped releasing for PPC when SL came out, but still have persistent
stores between
On this subject I can only say that I am glad that Bento
decided to support the PPC with 10.5 because otherwise I
would have had to select another database.
There must be millions of useable PPC systems around
(4 here) and maybe I am not the only one who will not
go on to 10.6 on my Intel
Thank you Chris, Kyle, and Lance. The benefits of keeping PPC support do
seem to outweigh going Intel only. As what our framework uses defines a
constraint for what can be built with it (i.e. if it's Intel only,
developers can't build universal BxApps), it seems like it would be best for
On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Dominic Blais wrote:
So the big question I have for the group is whether it is important for new
Cocoa software that has a 10.5+ requirement to support PowerPC. We really
want to do the best by our users, both in the sense of supporting their
hardware and
We have announced that all new major releases of our software will
require Snow Leopard (and therefore Intel processors). You can see our
current usage statistics at http://update.omnigroup.com—choose
Hardware from the popup list, and then choose CPU Type.
Another factor to consider is that you
Thank you for these responses! I think we will roll out with PowerPC but
EOL support for it within 6 months of the next major Apple OS release. As
Bombax is for server operation, I think the hardware adoption is a little
more conservative than with desktop users, but that 9% PPC population is a
Another factor to consider is that you will need to maintain PowerPC
hardware to test on.
--Kyle Sluder
I had a 50,000 line Cocoa program, and I thought about restricting it to Intel
for that reason, but then I thought heck, I'll build it universal and throw it
out there. Not a single bug
