On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:23:43AM +0100, Mark Banner wrote:
> On 19/07/2012 21:38, Alex Keybl wrote:
> >Thanks to everyone who joined this discussion. We've now moved
> >forward with disabling OS X 10.5 support for FF17 in [1]. Per
> >discussion here, we will strive to leave code in place through the 17
> >cycle, but if it becomes difficult to accomplish necessary work, we
> >may end up breaking things to advance our goals for supported Mac
> >versions.
> 
> Will we also be stopping the universal binaries? AIUI the 32 bit
> part was only kept around for the 10.5 support, and running 32 bit
> on 10.6 is unsupported.
> 
> Hence I don't think we need the 32 bit part any more?

There are two things for which 32-bit is required: 32-bits-only Mac
(they exist, and they run 10.6 just fine ; not sure about 10.7), and
32-bits plugins on 64-bits hosts. I doubt we can drop universal binaries
just yet.

Mike
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