<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jan 2018, at 18:42, Chris Barker <<a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" class="">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Ned,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It looks like you're still building OS-X the same way as in the past:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Intel 32+64 bit, 10.6 compatibility</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is that right?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Might it be time for an update?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do we still need to support 32 bit? From:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/99640/how-old-are-macs-that-cannot-run-64-bit-applications" class="">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/99640/how-old-are-macs-that-cannot-run-64-bit-applications</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There has not been a 32 bit-only Mac sold since 2006, and a out-of the box 32 bit OS since 2006 or 2007</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can't find out what the older OS version Apple supports, but I know my IT dept has been making me upgrade, so I"m going to guess 10.8 or newer…</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>A binary with a newer deployment target than 10.6 would be nice because AFAIK the installers are still build on a system running that old version of OSX. This results in binaries that cannot access newer system APIs like openat (and hence don’t support the “dir_fd” parameter in a number of function in the os module.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And maybe we could even get rid of the "Framework" builds……</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Why? IMHO Framework builds are a nice way to get isolated side-by-side installations. Furthermore a number of Apple APIs (including the GUI libraries) don’t work unless you’re running from an application bundle, which the framework builds arranges for and normal unix builds don’t. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Ronald</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>