Dropping support for OSX 32 bit

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Jan 10 10:32:04 UTC 2019


On 2019-01-10 05:34, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> So Apple has dropped support for 32 bit apps in the latest OS release 
> (September last year).
> 
> Officially we support 10.9 (Mavericks) released October 2013. All 
> supported versions run on 64bit processors, Apple support (I think?) 
> 10.11 and newer (we should probably raise that to be in line but thats a 
> different problem: see 
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/CAOC+-J-iZnpvEvFu5womjuy2H_ZiUzPytVDZfxoPuv1zYt173g@mail.gmail.com). 

According to this [1] El Capitan (10.11) is not supported any more. 
Unsupported as of August 2018 and iTunes support ends this year.

> The newer c++ standard library support is disabled on the 32 bit 
> configurations of the CI pipeline and is currently blocking 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9143
> 
> Removal of support has been requested 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2959
> and by many who have experienced the ~~joy~~ pain of dealing with CI 
> failures related to OSX32.
> 
> 1) Does anyone actually build for 32bit OSX?

As far as I know, the only one was Guillaume Piolat (p0nce) which has 
now requested the support to be dropped [1].

> 2) Is everyone happy with accelerating EOL for D support of OSX32?

Yes. Please kill it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_El_Capitan (in the right side pane)
[2] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2959

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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