Hello Owen,
If even switching to Linux is an option for your friend, couldn't he upgrade to
OSX Leopard (version 10.5) and use the official build instead?
Unless he runs an really old machine (G4 processor below 867 MHZ), Leopard
supports both PowerPC- and Intel x86-based machines.
With the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) in 2009 Apple began to
phase out support for Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4), including the release of
security updates.
Nobody cares if Mixxx runs under Win2k or Ubuntu 7.04 so why care for Mac OS
10.4?
IIRC we got near zero feedback from 10.4 users once we asked around the release
of Mixxx 1.9/1.10.
OSX 10.4 has below 10% market share in average of all OSX installations, RJ
might have some some specific numbers for mixxx.org from web tracking .
Not worth the effort imho.
As hint if someone wants to try it, last time we build for 10.4 the version was
not stable or produced static:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/949642
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/759330
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/722685
jus
On Jul 13, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Owen Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 14:15 -0400, RJ Ryan wrote:
>> Hey Owen,
>>
>>
>> I don't think anything in particular is stopping us from doing a 10.4
>> build. The main reason we do 10.5 is that the system API for decoding
>> MP3 and M4A that we rely on is only supported in 10.5 and onwards.
>>
>>
>> I've done a pretty thorough job of documenting how to setup a
>> builder / build environment here:
>> http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/macosx_builder_setup
>> This will produce a build environment that works for Mixxx 1.11.0. If
>> someone wants to give this a try that should have all you need.
>>
>>
>> I don't have time right now but might be able to try in a few weeks.
>> It could turn into a big time-sink if any dependencies have issues
>> building with the 10.4 SDK. If there are no kinks then it should build
>> perfectly by just copy-pasting the build output there if you set the
>> OSX sdk path to point to the 10.4 SDK instead of 10.5.
>>
>>
>> RJ
>
> Good to know. I wouldn't put a lot of effort into this unless there's a
> lot of demand for a 10.4 version. Also I don't own a mac so I can't try
> it myself. This friend of mine mentioned running linux on that laptop
> as another solution to the problem, so we may try that.
>
> Maybe I'll throw a poll in the forum and see if people are interested in
> a 10.4 build.
>
> owen
>
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