Here is a build of RapidWeaver 8.7.1 that’s Universal (built for Intel and Apple Silicon). It runs just great on both on systems, however… We don’t want to release it to the public until all the major plugins are compatible.
On Intel things will continue to just run as normal and all plugins will load. Unfortunately, on Apple Silicon Macs, none of the third-party plugins will load as they are currently built for Intel.
So, for us to even consider shipping this we need all you lovely developers to make your plugins Universal.
Just to keep you all in the loop, we plan to release RapidWeaver 9 as a Universal build. However, a release date has not been set. We will of course post a beta here as we get closer.
Please let us know what your plans are and if you have any questions.
Thanks for the heads up. We’re going to update our plugins to Universal at the beginning of 2021, although we were not expecting this would have been required in a minor release of RapidWeaver.
If you’d like to try this with a universal version of Stacks I’ve finally managed to get one all the way through the pipeline. Please be aware that this is the very first build. It has past tests, but I have yet to extensively test it on either platform.
Please keep it away from important work and customers. Thanks.
Hey @Isaiah that’s awesome news. Will take this for a spin in RapidWeaver 8.7.1 and report back if I hit any issues!
I’m thinking of setting up a help doc, for people interested in running RapidWeaver on M1 Macs, but we’d need to be able to offer a beta of both RW and Stacks. Let me know when a Stacks beta is good to go public so I can set that up…
For now you should probably use the public release, while it’s not universal it should run just fine. If you have plugins that are not universal that might crash RapidWeaver…
@instacks - if you hold down the option key when you launch and disable plugins does it launch?
it doesn’t look like the the crash report (stack-shot) is Stacks related. i don’t think plugins have loaded yet at all. none are listed. seems like it might be crashing pretty early on.
@instacks – Wow, that’s a crazy result just from installing Rosetta. I really want to duplicate this one myself.
So just so I can understand this, and hopefully duplicate it exactly when my own machine arrives… I just want to know if this is accurate…
Install Stacksv4.2.2 and RWv8.7.1
NEVER install Rosetta So, does that mean this a brand new machine? How many do you buy, you lucky bast*d?
Launch RW
Result: RW crashes immediately
Accurate?
OK, Last question: Are there ANY OTHER PLUG-INS in your RW addons folder?
please double check by manually opening the folder and looking in the Finder. Mostly just to make sure there aren’t multiple copies or anything crazy that might not show up in the RW addons window.
(and if you do discover something crazy like that – please let me know what you find – because it helps me identify when customers have the same thing going on)
OK, Really extra last question: to duplicate exactly, it might be good to also know if you have anything in your Disabled Plugins folder too.
I’m really just trying to cover all the bases. It’s a really interesting result. And knowing Rosetta installation affected running a seemingly universal app is crazy.
I’ve purchased my own Air finally, but it doesn’t arrive for about 3 weeks.
Hoping the ship date moves up a bit, but I’ll do some more specific M1 testing when it arrives. I want to try to duplicate this same exact thing before I install Rosetta too.
I really started with this plain RW 8.7.1 install without stacks or any other plugin.
It was a freshly installed M1 Big Sur installation, and I wanted to see how far I am getting without Rosetta.
I guess there is a small component inside RW still relying on Intel code.
By accident I found the same behavior with https://git-fork.com/
They also have already a universal build out, and also this didn’t start without Rosetta, because the bundled GIT library wasn’t recompiled and still on Intel code.