Re: Time to drop PowerPC support?
Re: Time to drop PowerPC support?
- Subject: Re: Time to drop PowerPC support?
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:59:59 -0800
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 will need to maintain PowerPC
hardware to test on.
--Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Dominic Blais <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello. OS X 10.6 is the first version of OS X that doesn't support the
> PowerPC architecture (http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html). We're
> working on a Cocoa server-side web framework and server (
> http://www.bombaxtic.com/bombax) and so far we've been making universal
> builds. We support OS X 10.5 or 10.6 and our plan is to keep 10.5 as our
> minimum OS version.
>
> But, the big question we're debating is whether to include PPC support in
> the production release. Since our product is still in beta, we have the
> pleasant opportunity to decide this without worrying about cutting off
> support to existing customers. Supporting Intel-only would make testing,
> development, and tech support easier. On the other hand, we don't want to
> alienate developers and administrators that are still loving their PowerMac
> G5 Quads :).
>
> 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 developing new features more quickly. Any advice or similar
> experiences would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dominic Blais
> Chief Operating Officer - email@hidden
> Bombaxtic LLC - http://www.bombaxtic.com
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