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Tools for managing the Mixxx build server and build VMs.
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Mac: Remove universal binary support. #39

Open rryan opened 6 years ago

rryan commented 6 years ago

Now that macOS is pretty much all amd64, we don't need to make universal PPC/i386/amd64 builds, so we can remove a bunch of code that supports that.

Pegasus-RPG commented 6 years ago

Up to what age of machines do we want to support?

Pegasus-RPG commented 6 years ago

Can we check the Web logs to get an idea of how many people on non-amd64 Macs visit the site at least? Or do we have metrics of how many non-amd64 ones click the download link?

Be-ing commented 6 years ago

What is the cost of continuing to build universal binaries?

rryan commented 6 years ago

We dropped x86 and PPC support years ago (1.11?), so this is just removing the vestigial code that supported building a single binary for all 3.

rryan commented 6 years ago

We require macOS 10.8, which doesn't support x86 or PPC.

Be-ing commented 6 years ago

Okay, then let's remove the vestigial code :+1:

Pegasus-RPG commented 6 years ago

We can always pull it out of the history if we ever need it again, right? If so, go ahead.

ywwg commented 6 years ago

the most likely future scenarios are mac remains 100% x64, or they come out with a line of ARM macs and we need a universal binary that's x64 and ARM

ywwg commented 6 years ago

(further prediction: current macOS libs (carbon/cocoa whatever) will be compatibility mode, and the main UI will move toward iOS-on-desktop)