Re: Time to drop PowerPC support?
Re: Time to drop PowerPC support?
- Subject: Re: Time to drop PowerPC support?
- From: Dominic Blais <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:18:25 -0800
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
really encouraging sign for switching later on down the road. Thanks again!
Sincerely,
Dominic Blais
Chief Operating Officer - email@hidden
Bombaxtic LLC - http://www.bombaxtic.com
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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