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    <p>Hi Peter,</p>
    <p>Thanks for this feedback.</p>
    <p>I remember when Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel that they
      had kind of compatibility/abstraction layer that allowed old
      software to work on the new intel platform. Are there similar
      plans with the switch to arm?</p>
    <p><font size="-1">Andreas</font><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 24.06.20 um 11:53 schrieb Peter
      Petrik:<br>
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        <div dir="ltr">Hi,
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          <div>As building on iOS already works (<a
              href="https://github.com/lutraconsulting/input-sdk/tree/master/ios"
              moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/lutraconsulting/input-sdk/tree/master/ios</a>),
            I imagine it would be possible to  run another architecture
            build for MacOS with a similar approach. It is in Apple's
            interest to facilitate transition to developers. To evaluate
            how hard it would be, that is more tricky at this point.
            First of all, Qt has to support this new architecture, I
            haven't found a statement from them yet if they plan it and
            when. So even Qt supports it (hopefully from Qt5 releases
            and not Qt6), we have to build all the deps with the new
            architecture, which takes some time to create recipes. And
            of course find a hardware where it all can be built
            (probably another machine , yes). Not saying that it is very
            frustrating to do development of such a new package if you
            do not own such hardware yourself...</div>
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          <div>P. </div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:33
          AM Régis Haubourg <<a
            href="mailto:regis.haubourg@gmail.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">regis.haubourg@gmail.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div>Hi Andreas, <br>
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            <div>I'm also worried about this move.</div>
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            <div>But one way to forward the cost to Apple is now to stop
              buying macs. <br>
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            <div>Sorry to troll, but the vendor lockin' nightmare they
              are building is not of the same nature as of the powerpc
              era. <br>
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            <div>I sold mine because they stopped to support it though
              it worked very well on the hardware side. And switching to
              linux on Mac is made hard on purpose.. > never again
              for me, even if they do really good stuff. <br>
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            <div>I found in LENOVO some durable hardware, easy to
              repair, hardware that works nicely and avoid me to trash a
              working computer.  <br>
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            <div>Best</div>
            <div>Régis<br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 24 juin 2020
              à 11:11, Andreas Neumann <<a
                href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" target="_blank"
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                <p>Hi all, esp. Peter,</p>
                <p>So I wonder what the new announcement of Apple
                  switching everything from Intel to arm architecture
                  will mean for our project? According to Apple they
                  will switch all of their devices to arm over the next
                  2 years.</p>
                <p>Will it be a lot of work to adapt the build system to
                  the new processor architecture? It will probably mean
                  that we will need an additional Mac build server for
                  arm architecture in our infrastructure and will have
                  to provide packages for both systems for many years to
                  come ...</p>
                <p>Not so nice for us as a project - can we forward
                  these costs to Apple for that move?</p>
                <p>Greetings,<br>
                  Andreas</p>
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