Just one more thing...

[Sean Kelly]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:go88pa$1guq$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you upgrade to 10.5 ?
>>> It's only a few months left to "Snow Leopard",
>>> then we can play the same game all over again.
>> Yeah, but 10.5 has working posix threads. It's doubtful whether 10.4 is 
>> worth the effort.
> 
> Ordinarily, I detest the idea of pulling support for anything as recent as 
> just a few years old. But Apple themselves has a habit of ignoring users of 
> anything except the latest version, so I would think that mac users would be 
> accustomed to the old routine of their OS becoming a deadend the moment a 
> new version comes out. So, in this case, I would think that there may 
> actually be justification in sticking with 10.5+, if you were to so choose.

It turns out that Apple doesn't allow OSX prior to 10.5 to be run in a 
VM, so I can't even generate a test environment for 10.4 unless I track 
down a spare computer for it.  10.4 may have to remain an unsupported 
platform simply by necessity.