Re: I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. (Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?)

2015-08-18 Thread Mike Hoye
On 2015-08-15 3:02 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: On 8/12/15 3:32 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: Relatedly, why does Tenfourfox use a different branding? Because I didn't want to get into the whole Ice* thing again. I have nothing to add to this except to say that this is a pure and noble goal, and I

Re: I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. (Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?)

2015-08-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 8/12/15 3:32 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: Relatedly, why does Tenfourfox use a different branding? Because I didn't want to get into the whole Ice* thing again. While most of it is the same, there's quite a lot of value-added stuff (JIT, AltiVec) and some things I turned off (plugins, webapprt),

Re: I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. (Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?)

2015-08-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 06:57:22AM -0400, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2015, at 03:56 AM, SciFi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. If Mozilla decides to drop the 32–bit

I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. (Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?)

2015-08-12 Thread SciFi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. If Mozilla decides to drop the 32–bit Mac users, then also drop the 32–bit Windows users and the 32–bit Linux users etc etc etc etc etc. I bet you’d hear a HUGE CRY from these

Re: I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. (Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?)

2015-08-12 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015, at 03:56 AM, SciFi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. If Mozilla decides to drop the 32–bit Mac users, then also drop the 32–bit Windows users and the 32–bit Linux users

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-10 Thread Syd Polk
Just got number from Brendan Colloran. On 2/15/15, there were 14772800 active users using x86_64 on Mac for FF, and 224400 using x86. x86 then is 1.5% of the active users. Seems like a safe bet to drop 32-bit support. Syd Polk sp...@mozilla.com +1-512-905-9904 irc: sydpolk On Aug 6, 2015,

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-07 Thread Ben Hearsum
On 2015-08-06 10:10 AM, Eric Shepherd wrote: Hubert Figuière wrote: But Only 10.7 and later can NOT run on 32-bits hardware. Which mean that unless we require 10.7, there is still a possibility the users run a machine that is not 64-bits capable, hence not able to run a 64-bits build of

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-07 Thread Robert Strong
I believe the blocklist ping also has it and I know metrics used the blocklist ping instead of the update ping in the past. On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Ben Hearsum bhear...@mozilla.com wrote: On 2015-08-06 10:10 AM, Eric Shepherd wrote: Hubert Figuière wrote: But Only 10.7 and later can

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-06 Thread Hubert Figuière
On 06/08/15 09:31 PM, Syd Polk wrote: If the chip is a Core 2 Duo, yes. If the chip is a Core Duo (32-bit chip), no. But these system aren't supported by MacOS X 10.7 or later. Also the 32-bits kernel is used for older machine that have a 64-bits CPU but not 64-bits UEFI firmware and gets

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-06 Thread Syd Polk
If the chip is a Core 2 Duo, yes. If the chip is a Core Duo (32-bit chip), no. Syd Polk sp...@mozilla.com +1-512-905-9904 irc: sydpolk On Aug 6, 2015, at 13:53, Kearwood Kip Gilbert kgilb...@mozilla.com wrote: 32-bit OSX kernels can indeed run 64-bit applications on 64-bit hardware.

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-06 Thread Eric Shepherd
Hubert Figuière wrote: But Only 10.7 and later can NOT run on 32-bits hardware. Which mean that unless we require 10.7, there is still a possibility the users run a machine that is not 64-bits capable, hence not able to run a 64-bits build of Firefox. Yes, this is the point here -- some

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-06 Thread Hubert Figuière
On 06/08/15 01:34 AM, Matthew N. wrote: On 2015-08-05 4:28 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Matthew N. ma...@mozilla.com wrote: If we have data on CPU architecture I don't think the OS version is relevant unless I'm missing something. My understanding is that OS

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-06 Thread Syd Polk
BTW, 10.7 also had a 32-bit version, and ran on 32-bit machines. Syd Polk sp...@mozilla.com +1-512-905-9904 irc: sydpolk On Aug 6, 2015, at 09:10, Eric Shepherd esheph...@mozilla.com wrote: Hubert Figuière wrote: But Only 10.7 and later can NOT run on 32-bits hardware. Which mean that

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-06 Thread Benoit Girard
Is this the data for people who are running only the latest release or some arbitrary Firefox releases where FHR/data collection is enabled? I ask because this data doesn't include any 10.4 and 10.5 usage so it's not an overall population snapshot. Sampling the crash data (very noisy I know) puts

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Aug 5, 2015, at 08:12, Ted Mielczarek t...@mielczarek.org wrote: Our Universal Mac builds are a frequent headache for build system work, being a special snowflake in many ways. They also use twice as much machine time as other builds, since they do a separate build for each

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Eric Shepherd
Gregory Szorc wrote: These are the blockers that I recall as well. However, I /think/ we've already decided that #1 is no longer a hard blocker and we can proceed as soon as #2 is resolved. Dropping universal Mac builds can't come soon enough given the impact to build system complexity and

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:22:10AM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: On Aug 5, 2015, at 08:12, Ted Mielczarek t...@mielczarek.org wrote: Our Universal Mac builds are a frequent headache for build system work, being a special snowflake in many ways. They also use twice as much machine time

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Syd Polk
I don’t think we can do this until we stop supporting Mac OS X 10.6. Last time we calculated percentage of users, this was still over 15%. I don’t think that very many of them would be running 64-bit, either. 10.7 has that problem as well, but it is a very small percentage of users. Syd Polk

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Syd Polk
So, in March of 2015, these were our usage stats: 32.20% 10.10 (14.0.x) (Yosemite) 27.98% 10.9 (13.0.x) (Mavericks) 19.22% 10.6 (10.0.x) (Snow Leopard) 11.06% 10.7 (11.0.x) (Lion) 9.53% 10.8 (12.0.x) (Mountain Lion) I have requested a more modern run from Brendan, who gave Clint Talbert

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Martin Thomson
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Matthew N. ma...@mozilla.com wrote: If we have data on CPU architecture I don't think the OS version is relevant unless I'm missing something. My understanding is that OS version is all that matters. 64-bit apps require a 64-bit OS. (Such an OS requires a

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 04:34:20PM -0700, Matthew N. wrote: On 2015-08-05 4:28 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Matthew N. ma...@mozilla.com wrote: If we have data on CPU architecture I don't think the OS version is relevant unless I'm missing something. My

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015, at 07:28 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Matthew N. ma...@mozilla.com wrote: If we have data on CPU architecture I don't think the OS version is relevant unless I'm missing something. My understanding is that OS version is all that matters.

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015, at 05:14 PM, Syd Polk wrote: I don’t think we can do this until we stop supporting Mac OS X 10.6. Last time we calculated percentage of users, this was still over 15%. I don’t think that very many of them would be running 64-bit, either. 10.7 has that problem as well, but

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015, at 06:59 PM, Matthew N. wrote: Assuming our FHR data is gathering correct data: 1.5% of our OS X users are on x86. (There is no date on the dashboard I'm looking at) If we have data on CPU architecture I don't think the OS version is relevant unless I'm missing

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Matthew N.
Assuming our FHR data is gathering correct data: 1.5% of our OS X users are on x86. (There is no date on the dashboard I'm looking at) If we have data on CPU architecture I don't think the OS version is relevant unless I'm missing something. Matthew N. (:MattN) On 2015-08-05 3:02 PM, Syd