Some other dev platform I use dropped PPC a long time ago, and just dropped support for anything below 10.7. They also asked about dropping support for Windows XP. Dropping 10.6 met with a little resistance there, but didn't lead to a revolt against the dev platform. Dropping XP seems to be a little more controversial, but it looks like this might be dropped as well, since MS won't support it anymore anyway. I guess support for the old platforms takes up time and needs to stop at a certain point in time. There is always a last version to use if you still want to compile for a certain target. As long as a list is available with what version is needed for what target, the problem seems minimal. Just make sure if a program requires a certain target, you don't move beyond the dev platform version that supports that target.
I also don't need support for 10.5 in new LC versions anymore. Dirk Cleenwerck On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Monte Goulding < mo...@sweattechnologies.com> wrote: > Hi Folks > > Market share is one thing and sales to that market share is another. > People still on 10.5 and below are quite used to not being able to buy new > software by now so probably aren't even looking. So really this is just a > maintenance market (which even Apple with their huge resources don't cover) > and LC 6.5 and 6.6 will cover that for as long as it's required. Just like > on iOS Apple make it incredibly difficult to build against old SDKs and > maintain backwards compatibility so I would much rather that LC were ready > when Apple drops Carbon than have new releases of OS X break LiveCode. > > I would add my vote for a Linux PPC version which shouldn't be all that > complicated to do. Really the only hope for most of these machines to > extend their functional life is to install one of the Linux PPC distros. > It's also possible for anyone to maintain a fork of LC Community for as > long as they like merging in applicable bug fixes. > > Additionally from a contributor's perspective the whole 10.5/10.4 thing is > quite frustrating because it means you need to jump through quite a few > hoops to build on a modern OS X system. From comments on the engine forum I > think at least one potential contributor simply gave up because of the > hassle. > > Spending a significant chunk of the kickstarter $ on maintaining > compatibility with such a small percentage of machines really makes no > sense whatsoever. I just wish this question was asked before the time was > spent trying to get it working in LC 7 but then again it always takes some > time for you to get to the point where you realise something will take a > ridiculous amount of resources compared to the gain. > > Cheers > > -- > M E R Goulding > Software development services > Bespoke application development for vertical markets > > mergExt - There's an external for that! > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
