> On Apr 27, 2017, at 11:54 PM, Shawn Rutledge <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 27 Apr 2017, at 16:59, Jake Petroules <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Anyways, iOS 11 will likely drop support for 32-bit applications entirely >> (i.e. they will not launch because 32-bit system libs will be GONE). So I >> agree we should stop shipping 32-bit slices in our binary distributions of >> Qt for iOS. We should not deliberately break 32-bit support though (and it's >> hard to do this accidentally anyways). > > Well, the latest iOS versions don’t run on devices of a certain age (and in > other cases, you can upgrade but you’d better not, because you’ll regret it) > - that’s their way of shaking you down. But as long as developers can keep > enabling continued use of those devices somehow rather than sending them > promptly to the shredder as soon as Apple wants you to, I think we should > support them in their efforts, or at least not interfere.
Removing 32-bit support from our packages only drops the iPhone 5 from support by Qt. The 5s and above are all 64-bit so this has been a long time coming. I'm all for dropping 32-bit "support" (from the CI). If people REALLY need 32-bit, they can go compile it themselves. > >> On 27 Apr 2017, at 17:00, Jake Petroules <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 27, 2017, at 7:40 AM, BogDan Vatra <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> For Android I'd like to support 64 bit platforms (arm and x86) >> >> They are already supported. Feel free to compile Qt with the appropriate >> -arch options. Do you mean you want them in CI and want us to start shipping >> binaries for android amd64 and arm64? >> >> I'm not sure there's enough 64-bit devices out there to justify it yet. >> Android moves very slow... > > Lollipop came out in 2014. And there were 64-bit devices available by then. > So I suspect the majority of new devices are 64-bit by now. > > If _users_ are slow to upgrade their devices, that’s really good on them, not > going along with the planned obsolescence nonsense which is purely harmful: > to your wallet, to the environment, to the sense of guilt that you feel when > you do the wrong thing, and increasing inequality in the economy. Apple gets > a black mark in my book for trying so hard to remove that choice. > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Jake Petroules - [email protected] The Qt Company - Silicon Valley Qbs build tool evangelist - qbs.io _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
