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

[David Kastrup]

Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2/10/12 12:52 PM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>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.  I still think we need some process for figuring out how much
sense it makes to invest time and energy into platforms that might not
see relevant actual use.  Our "end of line" procedures cost too much
energy.

-- 
David Kastrup