[Scummvm-devel] Mac OSX Supported Versions

D G Turner d.g.turner at ntlworld.com
Thu Nov 15 17:25:01 CET 2012


Oystein,
  Thank you for the response. I have used it to update the
  relevant wiki page: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Mac_OS_X

  Please feel free to amend this if I have made an mistakes or
  otherwise as you wish.
--
Thanks,
David Turner

On 11/14/12 13:53, Oystein Eftevaag wrote:
> 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




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