OT: Apple 64-bit changes

Mark Anderson emer at emer.net
Tue Oct 23 03:54:34 UTC 2018


Oh yeah, I mean CodeWeavers / WineHQ - Apple doesn't care at all. I've been
to enough WWDCs to know that. Good to know they are on it.

—Mark
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Mark E. Anderson <emer at emer.net>


On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:13 AM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:57, Mark Anderson wrote:
>
> > When I run a 32 bit command line app, I get the popup warning that this
> “Isn’t optimized for my Mac”.
>
> You will get that popup when you run *any* 32-bit app.
>
> > It’s kind of annoying that they’re removing the possibility when things
> like wine really need a 32bit space since Windows is no where near as far
> along on 32->64 bit.
>
> Apple appears not to care.
>
> > I hope they’re planning to spin up hypervisor.framrwork or something to
> fix that.
>
> It depends who you mean by "they". If you mean Apple, then no; they are
> clearly moving the Mac along a path of removing 32-bit support. On the
> other hand, CodeWeavers, one of the developers of Wine, has been working on
> a way to continue to run 32-bit Windows apps in Wine on macOS even after
> Apple removes the ability to run 32-bit programs. I do not know the
> specifics of how they plan to accomplish this.
>
>
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