> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Fritz Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Jan 2016, at 10:45 AM, Aandi Inston <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So far as I can see, all recent Mac OS systems are 64-bit on 64-bit >> hardware and can run an app shipped in 64-bit only. And 32-bit continues to >> run fine. >> >> But what about the future? Perhaps we can only speculate about whether >> 32-bit apps will be deprecated, but maybe Apple have started to hint that >> 32-bit has a limited lifetime? It's a question of prioritising work on old >> apps, and what will happen to our customers with older apps in future. >> Let's assume Cocoa has been weeded out of the apps already. >> >> Thanks in advance for your speculations (or more solid facts!) > > The people with solid facts don’t hang around on mailing lists like this, and > would be fired if they responded. Apple does not comment on its plans. What > we do know is this: > > We have more than hints. Apple has steadily increased the incentives for > third-party developers to drop 32-bit products. But it hasn’t even deprecated > it, much less cut it off. Unless I had to accommodate a market (like > education) that hangs onto hardware for a very long time, I’d never consider > anything but 64 bits. > > Apple itself has a harder decision, because it doesn’t want to break > developers’ remaining 32-bit products. (Add the “Kind” column to Activity > Monitor to see what I mean.) > > All we can know is that deprecation will come no sooner than June (10.12 > Tehachapi), withdrawal no sooner than June of 2017 (10.13 San Quentin).
Unrelated, but… are these the official code names? > > — F > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/sevenbitstech%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected]
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