Due to easier reading I have copied hereafter some statements from various posts I don't agree:
> I haven't built for PowerPC in ages and no one has ever noticed. I vote to drop support for OS 10.5. > Please continue to make LIvecode 6.5 and 6.6 commercial licenses avaialble who feel compelled to build for Mac PPC computers I don't know, why you set 10.5 == PPC. I don't talk about PPC support. I am talking about OS X 10.5 support on a 2007 Intel machine > If you know of anyone who absolutely must run OS X 10.5, please remind them that it's safe only for local work unconnected to the Internet. > If anyone wish to use those old OSes, they are on their own. > People running 10.4 and 10.5 use older hardware (I have a few of those around) and can't expect to be able to run the newest version of a software development system (while most of their programs are older versions anyway). I think this is not a "must run" or "whish" of anyone running an old (unsafe) system, but they don't have a choice, beside dumping their still fine running hardeware and invest 1200,00 - 2000,00 Euros for new hardware to be able to buy my product. I guess nobody will do. So it is not a problem of the customers, but of me loosing market share. You can't upgrade the 10.5 system of a 2007 MacBook to 10.6 because of hardeware incompatibility, it's not a choice! > For most folks I think it's safe to say that a decade of use is a good life span for a computer. I am talking about Macs from 2007. Do you think they all have to be dumped? I think they are still good machines and there are many people who don't need the newest software and are happy with it, though there are security leaks. > People who want to maintain their old systems can use old versions of LC. It is not a "want to", see above! It's my business to sell software and I can't tell any potential customer that he first has to buy new hardware. So it's my decision and my disadvantage and not theirs. > Also, LC 6.5 and 6.6 won't disappear. If the file system doesn't change and the language doesn't change too much, it should be fairly simple to use those to brew a compatible version. I agree from the technical point of view, that it wouldn't be much, to brew a downwards compatible version with LC 6.6. But for my part it is not affordable to provide compatibility for every product and every update to every new system on Windows, OS X (perhaps even also iOS and Android) and now additionally testing, compiling and distributing additionally versions with old LC. For me it would mean I would stay with LC 6.6. BUT I had to pay year by year 500,- Euro bucks for nothing, because Runrev will switch off my 6.6. license, if I don't pay. So I had to investigate if I could go back to LC 4.7 because runrev can't switch off that license (if I remember right). If runrev provides me a persistent license for 6.6. I would agree. Wonderful new world. My 2 euro cents Tiemo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Mark Schonewille > Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Februar 2014 18:21 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5 > > I completely agree with Tiemo's comments. This is a big issues for me. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour > spaces. http://www.color-converter.com > > Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" > http://qery.us/3fi > > LiveCode on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > > On 2/25/2014 17:53, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > Though I can follow the arguments for concentrating the efforts on new > > and faster platforms, I actually can't believe that only 3,8% of Mac > > users would be affected (if you count notebooks to desktops). I myself > > have beside my iMac a MacBook from around 2007 which is not > > upgradebale on OS X 10.6 anymore and I am sure there are a lot of > > those machines out there with 10.5, from my feeling much more than > > 3,8%. So I would be very unhappy to tell all my clients out there with > > these kind of machines, sorry you either can't buy new software from > > me nore updates to existing software anymore. And I can't afford to compile > and supply two different versions of my software. > > > > So from my side thumb down > > > > Tiemo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode