Mac OS X 10.5 support

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-02-09 10:37, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 09.02.2012 04:52, schrieb Walter Bright:
>> Lately, dmd seems to have broken support for OS X 10.5. Supporting that
>> system is problematic for us, since we don't have 10.5 systems available
>> for dev/test.
>>
>> Currently, the build/test farm is OS X 10.7.
>>
>> I don't think this is like the Windows issue. Upgrading Windows is (for
>> me, anyway) a full day job. Upgrading OS X is inexpensive and relatively
>> painless, the least painless of any system newer than DOS that I've
>> experienced.
>>
>> Hence, is it worthwhile to continue support for 10.5? Can we officially
>> say that only 10.6+ is supported? Is there a significant 10.5 community
>> that eschews OS upgrades but still expects new apps?
>
> I have a project that we actually plan to use in production in the
> company for which I work. They still require 10.5 support for their
> products so removing that support would make for a very bad situation here.
>
> But it should be possible to get a 10.5 retail DVD and install it inside
> a VM.. I actually planned to do exactly this to support 10.5 nightbuilds
> for my own D stuff.
>
> If support should be dropped anyway, are the issues only build-related
> so that e.g. gdc would still continue work on 10.5 without further work?

Yes, issue 4854 is a blocker:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4854

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg