LC & Mac M1 Chip

[Paul Dupuis]

Andre and Panos,

Thank you both. That given us some confidence we can release under LC 
9.6.2rc1 so that customers can go ahead with their M! Big Sur systems as 
they want to.



On 1/8/2021 6:46 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Panos,
>
> Just updated https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22955 with a
> screenshot from 9.6.2-rc-1 running on my M1 machine.
>
> I can't reproduce the bug, I guess it is fixed.
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 10:35, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Just a clarification - the bug about dashes in menus in standalones on Big
>> Sur is:
>>
>> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23009
>>
>> and not https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23013
>>
>> BTW, could someone that has a M1 Mac confirm that in the LC 9.6.2 RC-1 IDE
>> there are no dashes in front of the menus - in other words that this bug is
>> fixed:
>> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22955
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Panos
>> --
>>
>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 01:07, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Paul:
>>>
>>>   > we have several customer who have said
>>>   > they are upgrading to M1 laptops
>>>
>>> Yes; important to support! I'm looking in that direction too. It'll be
>>> popular, plus it's what I can afford. Many people in the same boat.
>>>
>>> (Backstory: Apple's biz model forces Apple to force us to spend on
>>> hardware. The mobile herd sticks with Apple, so the dev herd does too,
>>> so wallets must open and notes must rain down. But not satisfied yet
>>> with the rain from software tweaks, so now hardware tweaks too.)
>>>
>>> I'm planning to get an M1 Mac this year, to get back on the bleeding
>>> edge for a while. It's time. My old Mac hardware is still perfectly
>>> good, it was well-built and has zero issues, but finally has been pushed
>>> into what will soon be an untenable corner by the combo of new OS to
>>> support and new chip to support. But the older Mac will continue to
>>> serve for testing and for transition dev if needed.
>>>
>>>   > a sense of when LC 9.6.2 STABLE may be out?
>>>
>>> Could be roughly predicted, maybe, by looking at what they are working
>>> on. I actually agree with LC's anti release date policy; announcing firm
>>> dates is just begging for another issue to pop up. But since Apple's biz
>>> model places so much pressure on devs to keep up, a sense would be good.
>>> Especially since third-party addons and widgets also have to keep up
>>> with our ecosystem.
>>>
>>> (Another backstory: Don't forget the stable/stable linguistic play; I've
>>> seen RCs here that were actually more "stable" than the final, because
>>> glitches, regressions, and extra bugs are sometimes - perhaps often -
>>> introduced in the very process of fixing bugs. Depending on a stable to
>>> be stable is a gamble, and depending on the specific features in an app,
>>> there are times when the RC is more reliable. Nevertheless I really hate
>>> to publish anything with an RC; only when forced to do so.)
>>>
>>> BTW, Paul knows all of this very well. I'm just replying publicly in
>>> case the backstories will benefit other readers here in the process. :)
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Curry Kenworthy
>>>
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