"LiveCode 9 may still run on OS X 10.7, for the time being"
It does, cheers, cheers!
Having just invested 190 Euros in a 2006 Intel iMac (max OS 10.7) I am
extremely
happy about this.
Personally I couldn't care less about "Official Support": if I make a
c*ck up I'll take the
responsibility.
"highly-exploitable vulnerabilities": possibly; but on a limited budget
I'm very excited about my "new" Mac, and as it is not going to be
connected to the internet . . . and why on earth would a hacker waste
his/her time exploiting vulnerabilities of an antiquated OS anyway? . .
. I really could not care less
about them.
There is a little bird that keeps whispering in my lug that
"highly-exploitable vulnerabilities" is a phrasae
that is largely of value insofar as it keeps driving people to shell out
more money to buy more
machines:
as the cheapest iMac on the European market currently retails at 1,250 Euros
[ http://www.apple.com/de/shop/buy-mac/imac ]
and runs an OS (10.11 ~ 10.12) that has a GUI I just do not like
(Steve Jobs died, and while he went, arguably, to heaven, the Mac GUI
went to hell)
and I don't have 1,250 Euros extra dosh, 190 Euros for a lovely,
polycarbonate 21 inch
iMac that runs 10.7 (sits right next to my G5 iMac that runs 10.4 so I
can dig in Hypercard
stacks and copy code directly into LC stacks, and use Appleworks) seems
pretty good,
even at the risk of "highly-exploitable vulnerabilities".
As I often check my email and so on using Classilla
[ http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/ ]
on my G3 iMac running Mac OS 9, I feel that 10.7 is "way ahead" :)
This afternoon (Sunday) I have a load of hippy-trippy teenagers who I
have, somehow, got hooked
on Livecode, coming over to my flat for coffee, coding and a look at the
"new" Mac, as my favourite
importer (who has supplied all the machines for my school over the last
10 years) has just got
a job lot (possibly a "Jobs" lot . . .) of 2006 iMacs (17 inch screens
for 125 Euros, 20 inch screens for
190 Euros), and those kids would love an iMac, but are, in Bulgaria, at
the bottom of the European
financial treacle well, I am very happy that I can tell them that the
machines will work with the LC 8 series, and witht he currect LC 9 dp
release.
I have had reports of my Devawriter Pro screwing up on Macs, so I shall
now be building my Mac builds on the Intel iMac rather than on the Linux
box.
Richmond.
On 19.11.2016 18:22, Peter TB Brett wrote:
On 19/11/2016 15:13, Richmond wrote:
I would like to know why Livecode 9 has dropped support for all versions
of Mac OS before 10.9.
LiveCode 9 may still run on OS X 10.7, for the time being -- we just
don't provide any official support for (or run tests on) that platform
any more.
The development team has to regularly move the LiveCode build system
to newer versions of Xcode and newer versions of the MacOS SDK, so
that they can keep LiveCode working well with new versions of MacOS
and add new features requested by users. Occasionally this means that
older versions of OS X won't run LiveCode any more.
With a very small development team and quality assurance team, we have
to be careful to keep the number and variety of supported platform
configurations for LiveCode within a manageable limit. Occasionally
this means we have to stop providing technical support for running
LiveCode on older versions of OS X.
Apple stopped providing any patches or security fixes for OS X 10.8
over a year ago, and it contains many highly-exploitable
vulnerabilities. I *very strongly* recommend against using versions
of OS X prior to OS X 10.10. If your hardware can't run OS X 10.12, I
recommend upgrading its operating system to Linux.
You can find more information on our platform support plans in my
recent-ish blog post [1], and in due course we will be adding some
pages to the website that show the same information in a
quicker-to-find way.
Peter
[1] https://livecode.com/updated-platform-support-policy/
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