Proper value for os.arch on Apple Silicon

Vincent Habchi vince at macports.org
Tue Jun 23 06:29:35 UTC 2020


Ryan,

> Now that Apple has announced that Macs will have ARM processors [1], what is the proper value for ${os.arch} on such systems?

It should be noted that, apparently (I didn’t follow the keynote), the Apple staff never referred to the new arch as “ARM”, but used “Apple silicon”.

So why not simply adopt the name “apple”?

Vincent



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