Yes, all this is very similar when Apple moved from the PowerPC to Intel, many many moons ago. In fact, there was a time when you could have *3* versions: x86 32bit, PowerPC, and x86-64 64bit, all in 1 single bundle/binary.
> On Dec 23, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> > wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Am 22.12.20 um 02:33 schrieb Steve Lubbs: >> Has there been any thought given to moving/creating an OSX port to >> Apple's up coming Apple Silicon RISC CPU? > > Disclaimer: I am not a developer nor do I own a mac... ;-) > > But what I understand is that Apple lets you compile the code into a > "Universal Binary". > That UB does contain the code for Intel *and* ARM. > It will only install the native version depending on the platform. > > Advantage: We only need to provide one package for both systems. > The downside would be the increased size of the downloadable binary. > > That said, I don't know how difficult that process will be... > > Regards, > > Matthias > >> >> Steve >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
