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 as other builds, since they do a separate build > > for each architecture. I think it's time to make a plan to retire > > them and ship single-architecture 64-bit only builds. > > > > As far as I know, there are two main blockers here: 1) Users with > > 32-bit Apple hardware that can't install a 64-bit OS will become > > unsupported. I don't have data on how many users this is, but I > > suspect we can determine this from Telemetry. It's my understanding > > that the last 32-bit only Apple hardware that was sold was in late > > 2006, so it's nearly 9 years old at this point. 2) Currently > > watching Netflix in Firefox on OS X requires the Silverlight plugin, > > which is 32-bit only, so we need to ship a universal build for this > > to work. I believe that we are planning to ship an EME CDM that will > > work with Netflix in the near future, so this should make this a > > non-issue. > > > > For comparison, Chrome dropped support for 32-bit OS X late last > > year in Chrome 39[1]. If we have a plan to support Netflix without > > Silverlight, and we are OK with unsupporting however many users are > > stuck on 32-bit only Apple hardware, I think we should make a plan > > to switch our official builds to 64-bit only. Does anyone have any > > concerns I've missed? > > > > -Ted > > > > 1. > > http://www.computerworld.com/article/2849225/chrome-for-os-x-turns-64-bit-forsakes-early-intel-macs.html > > 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 > overhead in automation.
... until Apple announces ARM64-based Macbooks. </speculation> Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
