Re: Announce discontinuation of MacOSX support for versions 10.4 and older (issue 2271) (issue 5653057)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 2/10/12 12:52 PM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 08:16:53PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>>> address@hidden writes:
>>> 
>>> > However, there is clearly no desire to
>>> > actually create that two-line patch, so I guess that removing
>>>support is
>>> > the thing to do.
>>>
>>> Again: I don't have a clue about the involved work.  But if it isn't
>>> happening, there is no point in never releasing something for those
>>> platforms which we _do_ actively support.
>>
>> Agreed; if you fix the other comments in my review, I'll give it a
>> LGTM.  I'm just giving one more chance to somebody to care about
>> this.
>
>Sure thing.  When this will be going on countdown, I was also going to
>copy it to the user list.  I also plan on mentioning it in the next
>LilyPond Report (no idea about when I'll be working seriously on that,
>hopefully soon), whether before or after 2.16 has been released.  But as
>long as no users are seriously worrying about OSX 10.4 (and the only one
>actually offering a bounty was not doing this out of personal need, but
>because of sympathy with possibly mythical legacy users), there does not
>seem much of a point to expend the work, even if it is just few hours,
>for caring.

I will take a stab at the two-line patch tomorrow.

Thanks,

Carl






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