Dropping support for OSX 32 bit

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 15:46:15 UTC 2019


On 1/10/19 5:54 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 January 2019 at 04:34:30 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>>
>> 1) Does anyone actually build for 32bit OSX?
> 
> Yes, eventually, at some point.  Sometime over the next month, I'll be 
> adding druntime support for 10.5, as its the only version that fully 
> supports all architecture combinations for darwin (x86, x86_64, ppc, 
> ppc64).  For bootstrapping, it's easier to start at the most common 
> baseline.
> 
>> 2) Is everyone happy with accelerating EOL for D support of OSX32?
>>
> 
> So long as druntime C bindings are left intact - all rt stuff regarding 
> OSX support not compiler agnostic anyway - dmd compiler is fine to do 
> what it wants.
> 

I think the point is to allow PRs that may break the OSX 32-bit build. I 
don't think there are any plans to remove the current support.

In other words, I think it will continue to build and function, but 
nobody will be testing it. So it may break in the future.

And add me to the list of those who do not use (actually never used) 
32-bit OSX. And I've been using macs since 2012. I'm fine with removing 
support.

-Steve


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