Mac OS X 10.5 support

[Iain Buclaw]

On 9 February 2012 09:37, Sönke Ludwig <ludwig at informatik.uni-luebeck.de> 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?

Maybe... someone needs to test it though (apple-gcc won't work anymore
as that has been dropped, but gcc should still be available through
macports, or so I'm told).

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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