On 18, Jul, 2012, at 03:07 AM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Martin Hewitson wrote:
>
>> On 17, Jul, 2012, at 05:42 PM, Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:30:39 +0200, Martin Hewitson said:
>>>
>>>> This started to appear during the process of going from GC to non-GC.
>>>
>>> What do you mean "non-GC"? I strongly suggest going from GC to ARC, not
>>> from GC back to the stone-age retain-release. Although quite different
>>> 'under the hood', writing for GC and ARC is not so different, and you can
>>> even switch over slowly.
>>
>> That was my original plan, but ARC is 64-bit only, right? I'm not sure I'm
>> ready to drop 32-bit support yet, at least not without canvasing opinion
>> from the users.
>>
>> Martin
>
> I’ve got an app that’s backward-compatible all the way to 10.4/PPC, to which
> I added Sparkle support about half a year ago. In that half year, according
> to the Sparkle stats, 93.99% of my users have been on 64-bit Intel CPUs. Of
> the 6% who are not on 64-bit Intel, only 2.72% are using 32-bit Intel,
> followed by 1.91% on 32-bit PPC and 1.38% on 64-bit PPC (i.e. the G5).
That's very interesting. Not least of all that Sparkle can provide these stats.
I didn't know that. I guess today I'm integrating Sparkle and preparing to
gather some statistics. I'd very much like to drop 32-bit support in favour of
ARC!
Martin
>
> Needless to say, the next major release of my app will not be
> backward-compatible all the way to 10.4/PPC. I’d caution against putting too
> much effort into supporting what may well be a statistically insignificant
> portion of your user base. If you’re porting from GC, port it to ARC, and
> you’ll save yourself a great deal of time and headaches.
>
> Charles
>
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