[Scummvm-devel] Mac OSX Supported Versions

[Oystein Eftevaag]

Hiya,

The currently supported OSX versions are indeed 10.2.9 to 10.7.

It's hard to know how many users are still on 10.2.9, but last time we broke support by accident (two or three versions ago), we got bug reports on the issue. So I'd suggest that unless functionality is lost, it would be preferable to keep compatibility if it's just a matter of using older API calls. The Sparkle support which is discussed in the pull request is a bit different, since that can just be disabled by default on PPC platforms.

That said, as soon as there's some change or feature on the table which means we'd have to bump min requirement up to 10.4, that'd be no problem at all. We could just keep a download link available for the previous version for whoever are still using 10.2. Six years worth of backwards compatibility is still pretty good.

Other than that the changes look fine, though it's probably better if someone else commits them. As I'm sure is obvious by now, my time commitment for ScummVM hasn't been the greatest the last few years :P. So I wouldn't be able to follow up on this much.

If the commit breaks 10.2.9 support, buildbot will bitch about it; it uses the same 10.2 toolkit as I've been using for the release builds.

// Oystein

On 6. nov. 2012, at 23:43, D G Turner <d.g.turner at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Oystein,
>  Sorry to bother you, but if you haven't seen it, there is an new
>  OSX specific patch on the patch tracker:
>  "OSX: Fix & localize native browser dialog - ID: 3582260"
> 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3582260&group_id=37116&atid=418822
> 
>  If you could review and possibly commit this, that would be optimal
>  as it requires a bit of a judgment call about whether these changes
>  will cause build problems with current toolchain and/or older OSX
>  releases.
> 
>  As an aside here, it is also not clear which versions of OSX that we
>  support i.e. 10.2 to 10.7?
> 
>  There are no notes on this at:
>  http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Mac_OS_X
>  and this seems to indicate 10.2 to 10.5:
>  http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Compiling_ScummVM/MacOS_X_Crosscompiling
> 
>  So if you could update these notes, so we know what versions the
>  release packages can be used on please?
> 
>  Thanks for your time!
> -- 
> Thanks,
> David Turner
>