On 2012-02-09 10:37, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 09.02.2012 04:52, schrieb Walter Bright:
Lately, dmd seems to have broken support for OS X 10.5. Supporting that
system is problematic for us, since we don't have 10.5 systems available
for dev/test.
Currently, the build/test farm is OS X 10.7.
I don't think this is like the Windows issue. Upgrading Windows is (for
me, anyway) a full day job. Upgrading OS X is inexpensive and relatively
painless, the least painless of any system newer than DOS that I've
experienced.
Hence, is it worthwhile to continue support for 10.5? Can we officially
say that only 10.6+ is supported? Is there a significant 10.5 community
that eschews OS upgrades but still expects new apps?
I have a project that we actually plan to use in production in the
company for which I work. They still require 10.5 support for their
products so removing that support would make for a very bad situation here.
But it should be possible to get a 10.5 retail DVD and install it inside
a VM.. I actually planned to do exactly this to support 10.5 nightbuilds
for my own D stuff.
If support should be dropped anyway, are the issues only build-related
so that e.g. gdc would still continue work on 10.5 without further work?
Yes, issue 4854 is a blocker:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4854
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/Jacob Carlborg
