> If you do the math from the data available here > http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 > (that’s December 2013), 10.6 accounts for slightly less than 20% of all the > OS X versions. Let’s suppose those numbers reflect the reality.
For our app at least, the numbers are close to our actual OS X usage figures. Last I checked in September 2013, 20% of Mac users were on OS X 10.6. I should be able to get more up to date numbers if that is useful. As for the reason why usage of OS X 10.6 is still high - I think that is down to awareness of the need to upgrade and the effort/time vs. perceived benefits, as well as hardware compatibility issues. Once browsers (FF, Chrome) make a move towards dropping 10.6 support this might help awareness. Regards, Rob. On 23 January 2014 12:09, deDietrich Gabriel <gabriel.dedietr...@digia.com> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.ves...@digia.com> > wrote: >> On 22/01/14 9:02 , Ziller Eike wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø >>> <tor.arne.ves...@digia.com> wrote: >>>> 5.3: >>>> >>>> - Remove support from binary packages - No CI = In practice, >>>> deprecated, so let's be explicit about it for 5.3 >>>> >>>> 5.4 >>>> >>>> - Bump the dev branch to 5.4 - Remove 10.6 code as see fit - Apply >>>> 10.6 fixes to 5.3.x (stable) as normal >>>> >>>> The message is "Qt 5.3 deprecates 10.6 support (but is available >>>> for source builds for the lifetime of 5.3), and 5.4 will remove >>>> it.” >>> >>> I’d support this plan, and additionally throw in: >>> >>> after 5.3 / Qt Creator 3.2: - drop support for compiling & running Qt >>> Creator on 10.6 >>> >>> We want to start using C++11 also in Qt Creator, and 10.6 is the only >>> thing preventing that. Since 10.6 is deployment target only for Qt, >>> we don’t necessarily need to keep “its IDE” running there (yes, >>> that’s a Qt-centric way of looking at Qt Creator). >> >> I think it makes perfect sense. >> >> tor arne > > > I second that. > > Best regards, > > Dr. Gabriel de Dietrich > Senior Software Developer > qt.digia.com > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
