Maho: This is a hard decision, but with the pending release of Leopard, it is time to leave Panther behind us. It took very little time to remove Jaguar as a supported platform and I don't think there are any 2.x builds for it. If someone needs Panther support, they will definitely have to work on it. BTW, Microsoft has no further plans on supporting Panther with Office for the Mac and has abandoned it completely as far as I can tell. If this is not true, my apologies in advance.
James -----Original Message----- >From: Maho NAKATA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 16, 2007 6:18 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [mac] Please switch to MacOSX Tiger! The end of MacOSX Panther support > >Hi, > >*The last version of OOo that runs on Panther is 2.2.1* > >I have been providing MacOSX packages for long time (2 years?), >and I had done huge efforts to keep OOo usable on MacOSX Panther. > >But now it is the time to switch to Tiger. Too many >gcc-3.3 regression issues, and other problems, my motivation >is totally lost. >People noticed that *NO MACOSX BUILD since *SRC680_m217*. >ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/SRC680_m217/ >Actually I'm really suffered by these issues. This is why I coudn't >provide packages. > >As you all might know, officially supported platform of MacOSX OOo by >MacOSX porting team is Tiger, not Panther. This was decided long ago. >Maybe last year on MacOSX porting IRC, IIRC. > >And still there are some people who is using Panther. >I have been thinking such people are very important, yes - for example >still quite many people use Windows98. >I'm not against for decision, because if it runs on Panther then runs >on Tiger as well. So - I have been providing Panther builds. > >But - it requires too much resources! and I don't know who is >acutually developing/working on Panther at MacOSX porting team NOW. >We will move to native version of OOo, apparently Panther is out >of scope. This decision is totally agreeable. > >I decided to swich to Tiger. > >I'd like to thank very much for people who are using my builds. >Many of my packages are QA'ed and released as official packages. It is >really my pleasure. Especially I'd like thank people who helped me a >lot to fix Panther issues. > >*The last version of OOo that runs on Panther is 2.2.1* > >All the best, >-- Nakata Maho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
