Open rryan opened 6 years ago
Up to what age of machines do we want to support?
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?
What is the cost of continuing to build universal binaries?
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.
We require macOS 10.8, which doesn't support x86 or PPC.
Okay, then let's remove the vestigial code :+1:
We can always pull it out of the history if we ever need it again, right? If so, go ahead.
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
(further prediction: current macOS libs (carbon/cocoa whatever) will be compatibility mode, and the main UI will move toward iOS-on-desktop)
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.