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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] ./autogen failed.... on Mac OS X 10.6.6 Please advise me where to get help on this issue... To: Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+libreoff...@googlemail.com> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+libreoff...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Norbert, *, > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Christian Lohmaier >> <lohmaier+libreoff...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> > > But http://update.omnigroup.com/ lists 10.4 declining in percentage, > but still clearly above 10% of Mac users That is a non-negligible number indeed > > >> You mean that if someone go to the trouble of providing patch so that >> we can build a native 64 bits version for Mac >> you would reject/revert these patches ? > > If it would change the default of not building against 10.4: yes, I > would oppose the patch (at least that part of it) ahh, ok so I'm fine with that position. you're talking about the 'default', I'm talking about the 'option' of building a 10.6 specific I would like very much like to see willing new dev with some competence in 'native Mac' coding prepare the inevitable move to newer pastures... > > Look at the linux desaster. Despite so many people using linux, > working with linux, none of the three betas would run on my system. > I'm getting dizzy when I think about not "enforcing" 10.4 > compatibility and what it will mean to 10.4 support. People will > (without bad intentions) introduce stuff that will not be compatible > with 10.4, and even worse they then won't have the knowledge or will > to fix it up. Hum, even with the best intentions, and careful attempt to encapsulate 10.6 specific code in ifdef there is still the risk of that... but fortunately right now, 10.6 coder _could_ (*) actually build both version, for sanity check... there is no reason to believe that such a dev would not care about breaking the code, especially when he can easily test it himself. And if 'he' does not care, we have a bigger problem on our hand... (*) with a Dual socket PowerMac - and enough memory, one can build --disable-moz/--disable-binfilter/no LANG/ in less than 30 minutes. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
