Here is my thought. AOO exists to serve a large segment of the "I need office software" community which is, IMO at least, dis-served. Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest PC, with the latest version of the OS, and lots of RAM and disk. This is especially true in developing countries. If you have recent hardware and software, you have lots of options. If you don't, you are screwed.
The OpenOffice community is much, much larger than the population targeted by LibreOffice, MS Office and even GSuite. AOO exists to reach, support, and empower everyone. So with that in mind, baselining a "old" version of macOS (Oops... OS X ;) ) makes sense. Now, of course, you can build and run AOO on recent/current versions of macOS and hardware. We want to ensure that those stuck on older versions can also do that and, especially, ensure that our community builds support them. https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/devtools/build-scripts/4.2.0-Dev2/unxmacos/build_aoo64bit_on_macos.sh?view=markup > On Sep 15, 2020, at 6:59 PM, Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi - > > The 4.1,X line of releases should remain focused on MacOSX Lion 10.7. > > Which version should we target for 4.2.0 and trunk? > > Some facts: > (1) The minimum version of MacOSX you can get easily is Yosemite 10.10. > This runs on these machines. [1] The era is 2007-2009. > > (2) Catalina 10.15 is Apple's preferred version > It runs on these machines. [2] The era is roughly 2012-2013. > > (3) Building for Lion 10.7 requires special configuration of Xcode which > makes it hard to reproduce our community builds. > > No hurry to have this discussion. I just wanted to gauge developers thoughts > before I make another attempt to build. > > Regards, > Dave > > [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210717 > [2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
