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: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:47:15 -0800
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Chris Idou <email@hidden> 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 customers for my trouble.
>
> I don't see the point in dropping PPC support, unless you have special issues.
Yours is the only judgment that matters in that decision. It comes
down to quite a few tradeoffs, including whether you have an
established testing infrastructure, whether Snow Leopard includes some
support which would make your life much easier (decrease
time-to-market, improve code quality, etc.), and others.
I can't elaborate on the reasons for our decision, but I can link you
to the Seattle Times article in which the decision was made public:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009727557_applesnow24.html
I guess all that really can be said is "use your best judgment."
There's a lot of engineering considerations to be made when deciding
to cut backwards compatibility, but there are quite a few
non-enginering concerns as well. Above all, don't take our software
update data as some sort of gospel; it may be utterly unrepresentative
of your target market, or perhaps just flat-out incorrect.
--Kyle Sluder
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