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: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:25:16 -0800
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
customers to keep it. When we move to 10.6 as a requirement, that would be
the natural time to drop support for it. Given than 10.6 is a fairly small
upgrade, we might well keep PPC support for a long time indeed. Thanks
again for your insight!
Sincerely,
Dominic Blais
Chief Operating Officer - email@hidden
Bombaxtic LLC - http://www.bombaxtic.com
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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