[Bf-committers] Mac OS 32 bit

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 21:28:57 CEST 2014


Was this decision announced anywhere or noted in release logs?

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Jens Verwiebe <info at jensverwiebe.de> wrote:
> I decided to drop 32bit for some reasons:
>
> -  there are only few very old machines not supporting 64bit
> -  those have all VRAM hard to the limit to inoperability
> -  32bit was never featurecomplete ( osl )
> -  don't wanna do all work double for a neglegtible userbase ( 3 ? ;-)  )
>
> 32bit builds are still possible, but some libs we depend on start to give trouble in i386,
> so in the future i may drop compiling all libs fat anyway.
>
> Jens
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> Am 04.07.2014 um 20:13 schrieb Fazekas László <mneko at freemail.hu>:
>
>> Isn't it a universal binary? Are you using xcode for compiling?
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-04 13:31 keltezéssel, Thomas Dinges írta:
>>> Hey,
>>> we don't have a Blender 2.71 release for Mac 32bit on our servers? Is
>>> that build missing or do we drop 32 bit there?
>>>
>>> If that's the case, the website should be updated, Mac maintainers
>>> please report back here.
>>>
>>> Thomas
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