Shared Libraries [was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release]

[Walter Bright]

On 1/7/2013 12:12 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-01-07 20:54, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> It's pretty clear where we'll be going with this. We'll be abandoning OS
>> X versions older than 10.7.
>
> Would it be a bad idea and do what the dynamic linker does in the druntime to
> support TLS? This would make it work on Mac OS X 10.6.

I don't think it's worth the effort. We don't have the resources to expend on 
platforms that are already obsolete.


>> I don't know enough about the Mac ecosystem to know when we can pull the
>> plug on that.
>
> Me neither. Mac OS X 10.6 was released August 28, 2009. There have been two
> major releases since then.

Sounds like we can pull the plug.