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

[Peter Petrik]

Hi,

As building on iOS already works (
https://github.com/lutraconsulting/input-sdk/tree/master/ios), 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...

P.


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:33 AM Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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