I agree. -- David DM Smith wrote: > I think this is a great plan. > > On Mar 11, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Manfred Bergmann wrote: > > >> Hi DM. >> >> Mac Users should be used to that all of a sudden some software support >> is just canceled. >> Just kidding. :) >> But still, I think they are used to such things more than Windows or >> Linux or even Java users. >> Apple sometimes is very restrictive and makes hard cuts themselfes. >> >> But you are right, having support for the last two major OS releases >> would be good. >> >> Maybe we can have it like this: >> >> - MacSword 1.2.1 for Jaguar, Pather, Sword 1.5.8 >> This version will not be changed any longer. >> >> - MacSword 1.3.x for Pather, Tiger, Leopard, Sword 1.5.10 >> Critical bugs will be fixed. >> Creating a bundle with default modules. >> >> - MacSword 1.4 for Tiger, Leopard, Sword 1.5.10 and above >> Backport of Sword backend changes from Eloquent to MacSword. >> Integration of Module Installer. >> This would imply though that Module Installer would need to have the >> Objective-C 2.0 stuff removed. >> But after looking into Objective-C 2.0 I think it does not have so >> many enhancements that it justifies abandoning Tiger users. >> I think I will look into doing that. >> >> >> Regards, >> Manfred >> >> >> >> >> Am 11.03.2008 um 21:57 schrieb DM Smith: >> >> >>> Manfred Bergmann wrote: >>> >>>> it would be a Leopard only >>>> application. >>>> IIRC the majority of users that had questions about MacSword >>>> actually >>>> were using Leopard. >>>> >>>> >>> We have thought about which OSes we should support for BibleDesktop. >>> The >>> conclusion was to support at least the current and the previous and >>> to >>> not actively support earlier versions. We also concluded that we >>> would >>> not knowingly prevent earlier platforms from running the latest >>> release >>> without great gain. >>> >>> The way this came about is that we upgraded to Java 5. This was >>> over a >>> year after Tiger had been released. I had just gotten a Mac Mini with >>> Tiger and was un-aware that Java 5 would never be ported to Panther. >>> Within the next few weeks we got reports that it wouldn't run on >>> Panther. We then downgraded back to Java 1.4.2. >>> >>> Our target users include missionaries, pastors, churches, ... with >>> old, >>> hand-me-down laptops. >>> >>> At the time, BD was not close to being feature complete and had some >>> nagging bugs. For support reasons, it was not the appropriate time to >>> make such a change. I didn't want to be suggesting that a user had to >>> pay money (for an OS upgrade) to use our software. >>> >>> Once we are reasonably feature complete and relatively bug free, we >>> plan >>> to do a major development shift to using WebKit (or its equivalent on >>> other platforms). This may prevent us from running on older OSes. >>> >>> If you were to announce a MacSword upgrade, I think that many would >>> want >>> to get the upgrade. Especially since your beta is so much better >>> than 1.2.x. >>> >>> All this is to recommend that Leopard is very recent and Tiger >>> shouldn't >>> be abandoned just yet. >>> >>> -- DM >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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