> On 13 November 2018 at 12:12, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> On Nov 11, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Berkus Decker wrote: >>> These changes are ought to work on OSX 10.6, although I don?t have a >>> machine handy to test it. >> >> I have Mac OS 10.6 available for testing. > > This is perhaps a good point to ask the question: is retaining > support for 10.6 still worth the effort ? It was released 9 > years ago and has been unsupported by Apple for nearly 5 years. > > qemu-doc.texi's "Supported build platforms" section says: > # The project supports building with the two most recent versions > # of macOS, with the current homebrew package set available. > > which would be High Sierra (10.13) and Mojave (10.14) only. If you > widened that to "all versions still supported by Apple" it would add > Sierra (10.13) to the list. > > Given how few upstream developers we have who care about OSX, > I think it is not very useful to spend that effort on trying > to retain support for ancient versions of it. > > thanks > -- PMM
Mac OS 10.6 is a very good operating system. I much rather we simplify the patch rather than drop support for this excellent operation system just because it is a few years old. I suspect rewriting the the patch to use performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: would be a simpler and better patch. I have tried the patch out already on Mac OS 10.12 and it did not work. The firmware never runs and the Machine menu does not populate. I do not believe this patch is worth dropping the support of many versions of Mac OS X.
