Re: Macintosh support

2016-11-21 Thread Richmond
"nothing is stopping you from developing with LC versions prior to 9" indeed: I'm refactoring, recoding, rejigging and generally have a "fun time" moving my Devawriter Pro from LiveCode 4.5 (which is seriously long in the tooth) to 8.1.1 and, as long as I can get the thing to work on Windows 1

Re: Macintosh support

2016-11-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Honestly though, nothing is stopping you from developing with LC versions prior to 9. If you use script only stacks for your code libraries, it should be fairly easy to conditionally branch for any new features you might want to make available which older versions do not support. And if you say

Re: Macintosh support

2016-11-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
:-) Bob S On Nov 20, 2016, at 04:34 , Richmond mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: as the cheapest iMac on the European market currently retails at 1,250 Euros [ http://www.apple.com/de/shop/buy-mac/imac ] and runs an OS (10.11 ~ 10.12) that has a GUI I just do not like (Steve Jobs d

Re: Macintosh support

2016-11-20 Thread Richmond
"LiveCode 9 may still run on OS X 10.7, for the time being" It does, cheers, cheers! Having just invested 190 Euros in a 2006 Intel iMac (max OS 10.7) I am extremely happy about this. Personally I couldn't care less about "Official Support": if I make a c*ck up I'll take the responsibility.

Re: Macintosh support

2016-11-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 19/11/2016 15:13, Richmond wrote: I would like to know why Livecode 9 has dropped support for all versions of Mac OS before 10.9. LiveCode 9 may still run on OS X 10.7, for the time being -- we just don't provide any official support for (or run tests on) that platform any more. The de

Re: Macintosh support

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > I would like to know why Livecode 9 has dropped support for all > versions of Mac OS before 10.9. ZDNet reports that OS X 10.8 t hasn't received critical security patches in over four years, and as such is regarded as too dangerous to use: OS X Mountain Lion: Still unsupp