On 30 Jan 2018, at 18:42, Chris Barker <Chris.Barker@noaa.gov> wrote:

Ned,

It looks like you're still building OS-X the same way as in the past:

Intel 32+64 bit, 10.6 compatibility

Is that right?

Might it be time for an update?

Do we still need to support 32 bit? From:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/99640/how-old-are-macs-that-cannot-run-64-bit-applications

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

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…

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.

And maybe we could even get rid of the "Framework" builds……

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.