OT: Apple 64-bit changes

Randolph M. Fritz rmfritz3 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 03:29:04 UTC 2018


Thanks, everyone, for the discussion. I'll have to look into how it applies
specifically to our app.
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:54 PM Mark Anderson <emer at emer.net> wrote:

> 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
> _______________________
> 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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