On 9 February 2012 09:37, Sönke Ludwig <lud...@informatik.uni-luebeck.de> 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?
Maybe... someone needs to test it though (apple-gcc won't work anymore as that has been dropped, but gcc should still be available through macports, or so I'm told). -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';