[squeak-dev] Platform usage - was some long discussion about macOS, metal, and primitives.

Bruce O'Neel bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch
Sat Apr 30 08:28:17 UTC 2022


Hi,

Tobias had a line at the bottom of an email recently:

"Please note that the Mac user base is by far the smallest nowadays."

Do we have any good way of figuring out what the platform split and/or
usage numbers are?

This would be useful just to not accidentally ignore what turns out
the be the most popular platform and/or not to spend giant amount of
time on a platform that no one really uses.

One thing that comes to mind is that the Arm 32 bit build that one
would use on the Raspberry PI for 5.3 was broken for months in the 5.3
official downloads and no one complained.  But....  On the PI the
Squeak VM came pre installed so one might never have known.

Anyway, if we don't know then we don't know.

cheers

bruce

On 2022-04-30T09:49:05.000+02:00, Tobias Pape
<notifications at github.com> wrote:

> So, if I see that correctly, this is the table of affected user
> bases
> 
>          WIN
>          MAC
>          LINUX
> 
>          Squeak <=5.3, disableDeferredUpdates: true
>          ✅
>          ✅
>          ✅
> 
>          Squeak <=5.3, disableDeferredUpdates: false
>          ✅
>          ❌
>          ✅
> 
>          Squeak <=5.3, updated via update map
>          ✅
>          ✅
>          ✅
> 
>          Squeak 6 alpha, not updated
>          do not use
>          do not use
>          do not use
> 
>          Squeak 6 alpha, updated
>          ✅
>          ✅
>          ✅
> 
> Please note that the Mac user base is by far the smallest nowadays.
> 
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