Hi Jim, > On Dec 2, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Up to now, we've held 10.7 as the oldest version of OS X AOO is supported on. > Even with 4.2.x this is still the case. > > However, if we allow for 10.9 to be the "oldest", we can help include some > capabilities that we can't right now. For example, our support of RTTI and > _si_class_type_info is pretty meager on macOS, due to that only being > available starting w/ a 10.9 SDK and this impacts "our" full support of UNO. > > So I am wondering if maybe we should, to go along w/ CentOS7 as our base > community builds, "upgrade" to 10.9 for our macOS ones.
I agree. We only lose a few Mac hardware versions from around 2007-2008 by dropping 10.7 and 10.8 support. I found a good listing on this page: https://jimmytechsf.com/what-system-software-can-my-mac-run/ BTW - only one model that supports 10.9 cannot be upgraded to 10.11 (A MacPro 4,1 (Early 2009)) So, a minimum version of 10.10 is nearly the same as a minimum version of 10.9 and it is possible to download Yosemite, but Mavericks is unavailable. Some earlier Macs can be hacked to support 10.7, but it requires either a new Intel chip or more memory. I think that 4.1.8 can be offered anyone who cannot upgrade to 10.9 or better. > > Alternatively, we could produce 2 macOS packages: one for 10.8 and older and > one for 10.9 and newer. In fact, I even noticed that the download page still > has the *logic* for 2 macOS DMGs to be available... It’s really hard to keep around a 10.7 machine to test. (At least for me.) All of the browsers stopped working properly on the iMac that I was holding back on. So, I had to upgrade our iMac8,1 to 10.11 (as far I could go.) I have an older Mac in storage. Next time I can I’ll retrieve it to see what OS X is on it. I think it is 2004 era … Regards, Dave > > Thoughts? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
