On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Douglas Mencken <dougmenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm here to ask you: why you decided to drop 10.6 support? > Is it not so "hard" to keep it running, isn't it? >
You can search our mailing list archives for the dev list for the discussions. For example, there is this thread from December 2013, which is interesting because it gives some of the user stats related to MacOS versions: http://markmail.org/message/qfqarbaoesonibur > By the way, I'm LO guy, so see my patches, for example: > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=47b520024a236eac8807a33630f493a00fc5f243 > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=a2ee38ef7afcec27f46530bf9e177939e38cc815 > > Why is it so hard for you to support even 10.6 (no to say 10.5@powerpc)? > WHY? > As you probably know, every unique platform we support increases the effort required to build, maintain and test, if we want to preserve the expected quality level for users. Looking at the current and historical numbers we saw a sharp decline in the number of MacOS 10.6 users. Since we were working on a major release of AOO it made sense to make the break then. Remember, it is never a question of IF we drop support for old platforms, but of WHEN we drop support for older platforms. That said, there are users on older platforms, including PowerPC. That's fine. If there is sufficient interest this might be a good business for a 3rd party. We see this already with 3rd party ports for Apache OpenOffice for Solaris and OS/2. The Apache License allows 3rd parties to do this. There is nothing that requires that all porting work be filtered through or approved by us. The code is there for anyone to use. Regards, -Rob > Again, I know "corporate guys" are unable to read completely (unless it's > claimed by boss from "high") — WHY? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
