On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Jayson Adams <jay...@circusponies.com> wrote: > I say again, Apple's official 64-bit porting document states, right now, that > you may or may not want to move to 64 bit. If Apple is planning on removing > 32-bit support in the near future, they will be partly to blame for any rude > surprise to developers. You can talk all you want about reading the tea > leaves to determine the time of 32-bit's last breath, but not every developer > is doing that. The ones who aren't, but are consulting the porting guide, > have a different understanding of the situation.
You've already been told, by Apple people and others, that that guide is completely outdated. This is not a joke, this is not a guess or a conjecture or an extrapolation; this is fact. That advice is no longer relevant. Porting to 64-bit is not optional going forward. 32-bit support is already waning in current versions of the OS and Apple has all but explicitly stated they don't intend to do anything about it and DO intend to drop the support in the future. If you treat this as anything other than a reason to make the effort now, while you still have a working application and don't have to leave your users hanging waiting for a new version, then you are saying that you -want- to fail. No more, no less. 64-bit porting is not a complicated endeavor for most applications, and while I can speak with certainty only for myself, I'm sure many people on the list would be more than happy to offer you advice on any areas you find problematic if you would explain where you foresee difficulties. -- Gwynne _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
