At this point, the only people on 10.4-5 should be those with PPC macs. I think 32-bit Intel owners may be stuck on 10.6.
On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:13 PM, "Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote: > "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message > news:jgvfu2$gmk$1...@digitalmars.com... >> 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? > > While I'm normally big on not dropping support for older things, my honest > take on it is that if someone's using an Apple OS, then they've already > agreed to an implicit "contract" (for lack of a better word) that they're > going to need to keep upgrading to whatever's the latest hardware/software > anyway. It's just the way Apple works. 'Course, as a non-Apple user, I'm not > sure anything I have to say on it counts for much. So, FWIW. > >
