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Re: PSPP builds after Intel-only 1.6.2 on Mac Monterey 12.6 and later (M
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: PSPP builds after Intel-only 1.6.2 on Mac Monterey 12.6 and later (M1/M2 Silicon chips / Universal rather than Rosetta stimulation) |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Sep 2022 13:01:56 -0700 |
None of the PSPP developers use a Mac. I don't know of anyone working
on this. If anyone is, I hope they will speak up.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 1:00 PM Patrick Davey Tully <pdavmail@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious if PSPP after the 1.6.2 stable build for Mac (native only for Mac
> Intel) might be in development for use as a Universal (works natively without
> stimulation - Rosetta) on Apple Silicon chips: which are the chipsets used on
> Apple's M1 and M2 laptops of 1-2 years? Sometimes application developers
> create code for an Intel app and then for an Apple Silicon app separately
> which in that case they have separate builds available. But if they decide to
> create one app build that supports both Intel and Silicon natively without
> stimulation for silicon then it is a Universal app (and labeled as such in
> the Application - shown to the end-user who installs it).
>
> I know that Apple plans to end support for Rosetta stimulation at some point
> in the future and so I do hope that PSPP does have plans for native support
> in some way. I don't mind at all if the builds are separate.
>
> I will say after a restart PSPP v1.6.2 works reasonably well for me. But
> again, I'm curious if the developers think this would be easy to do. If they
> do make a Universal app, then in my mind the work becomes much easier after
> that point, as Apple would not be transitioning chips again for a long time!
> And a universal app would take care of both Intel and Silicon chip computers.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrick
>