On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Yuv <goo...@levy.ch> wrote: > On 5 Sep, 07:47, Harry van der Wolf <hvdw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The wiki page is not up-to-date anymore also due to newer OSX and XCode >> versions no longer supporting older OSX versions. Apple gets more >> aggressive in their policies regarding older versions. It might even result >> in two pages for OSX Snow Leopard and older and OSX Lion and newer. > > Has Apple dropped support for Snow Leopard and older systems, or is it > just being aggressive about the support in the development tools? I > have a friend at university who is still on Leopard and he told me > that Chrome notified him that it won't upgrade anymore because it is > too old. IMHO it does not make sense to build / distribute binaries > for operating systems that are no longer supported by the > manufacturer. Better relegate those systems like Windows 2000 or > Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat. Microsoft will end support of Windows XP on > April 8, 2014; Ubuntu will end support of Natty Narwhal on October > 2012; and if Apple ends support for an O/S it does not make sense to > go against the stream either. Focus the limited resources on the > current systems and let users of obsolete systems use the old versions > that were built when those systems where supported. > > Yuv
I agree. Apple is very agressive in moving forward. While it would be great to support everyone forever, it just isn't practical as a volunteer run operation. It's certainly reasonable to keep old bundles around though for older setups. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
