Simon,

On 9 December 2022 at 10:00, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| the minimum required version for the high-sierra build is 10.13 and for 
big-sur build is 11.0 (as the names imply). Although it is not unrealistic to 
move Intel to macOS 10.14, it would be more problematic to move to 10.15 since 
it is the version that killed 32-bit support so 10.14 is actually more 
prevalent than 10.15 as a lot of users will never upgrade due to that loss. 
Given that Intel binaries are there only to support legacy hardware it's 
unlikely to move forward much more (i.e. I can see the immediate argument 
saying that those macOS version are unsupported, but so are the machines 
running them, but that doesn't mean R users won't use them).
| 
| What exactly do you need the higher macOS versions for? Generally, there were 
no major changes in the Mach-O format recently, so it shouldn't really matter - 
the main difference would be SDK/run-time - are there  specific features you 
require? Some of it could be addressed by providing more recent run-times 
separately - that's why I'm asking.

In this case: std::filesystem which is from C++20 and errors on macOS.

We will #ifdef it out of existence on that platform but use it on other
platforms where we can.

Thaks, Dirk

-- 
dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org

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