[QGIS-Developer] QGIS for Apple: Intel vs. arm

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi Andreas,
I'm also worried about this move.

But one way to forward the cost to Apple is now to stop buying macs.
Sorry to troll, but the vendor lockin' nightmare they are building is not
of the same nature as of the powerpc era.
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.
I found in LENOVO some durable hardware, easy to repair, hardware that
works nicely and avoid me to trash a working computer.
Best
Régis


Le mer. 24 juin 2020 à 11:11, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> a
écrit :

> Hi all, esp. Peter,
>
> 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.
>
> 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 ...
>
> Not so nice for us as a project - can we forward these costs to Apple for
> that move?
>
> Greetings,
> Andreas
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