[tor-bugs] #13685 [Tor bundles/installation]: Transition away from 32bit OS X Tor Browser builds

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#13685: Transition away from 32bit OS X Tor Browser builds
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     Reporter:  gk                        |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  task                      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |    Version:
   Resolution:                            |   Keywords:  tbb-4.5-alpha
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:8 mikeperry]:
 > I had forgotten the history in this ticket before posting this on tbb-
 dev: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-
 dev/2015-March/000250.html.
 >
 > It sounds like 5-6 months ago, our plan was to update 10.8+ MacOS users
 automatically, because we knew for sure they would be 64bit.
 >
 > However, it while looking up info while writing that mailing list post,
 I found at least one page that says that 10.6 and 10.7 machines should be
 able to execute 64 bit apps even while running 32 bit kernels:
 http://appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/28/road_to_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_64_bit_to_the_kernel
 >
 > Is that true? Should we try to be smarter about detecting if the CPU can
 actually do this? Or is this likely to be risky?

 There are only some machines were 10.6 and I think 10.7 is running on that
 are 32bit only (my testing mac book with 10.6.8 can handle 64bit Tor
 Browser just fine) but detecting that AND getting our update machinery
 behave accordingly is not trivial which is why we decided to go that road.
 I think this is still fine.

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