Thank you for these responses! I think we will roll out with PowerPC but EOL support for it within 6 months of the next major Apple OS release. As Bombax is for server operation, I think the hardware adoption is a little more conservative than with desktop users, but that 9% PPC population is a really encouraging sign for switching later on down the road. Thanks again!
Sincerely, Dominic Blais Chief Operating Officer - domi...@bombaxtic.com Bombaxtic LLC - http://www.bombaxtic.com On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Kyle Sluder <kyle.slu...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have announced that all new major releases of our software will > require Snow Leopard (and therefore Intel processors). You can see our > current usage statistics at http://update.omnigroup.com—choose > Hardware from the popup list, and then choose CPU Type. > > Another factor to consider is that you will need to maintain PowerPC > hardware to test on. > > --Kyle Sluder > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Dominic Blais <domi...@bombaxtic.com> > wrote: > > Hello. OS X 10.6 is the first version of OS X that doesn't support the > > PowerPC architecture (http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html). We're > > working on a Cocoa server-side web framework and server ( > > http://www.bombaxtic.com/bombax) and so far we've been making universal > > builds. We support OS X 10.5 or 10.6 and our plan is to keep 10.5 as our > > minimum OS version. > > > > But, the big question we're debating is whether to include PPC support in > > the production release. Since our product is still in beta, we have the > > pleasant opportunity to decide this without worrying about cutting off > > support to existing customers. Supporting Intel-only would make testing, > > development, and tech support easier. On the other hand, we don't want > to > > alienate developers and administrators that are still loving their > PowerMac > > G5 Quads :). > > > > So the big question I have for the group is whether it is important for > new > > Cocoa software that has a 10.5+ requirement to support PowerPC. We > really > > want to do the best by our users, both in the sense of supporting their > > hardware and developing new features more quickly. Any advice or similar > > experiences would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Dominic Blais > > Chief Operating Officer - domi...@bombaxtic.com > > Bombaxtic LLC - http://www.bombaxtic.com > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > > > 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: > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kyle.sluder%40gmail.com > > > > This email sent to kyle.slu...@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
