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 sp...@mozilla.com +1-512-905-9904 irc: sydpolk > On Aug 5, 2015, at 16:09, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
