I'm blocked, help me!

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 21:24:30 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:15 AM Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/8/19 6:33 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 2019-01-08 07:09, Brad Roberts wrote:
> >
> >> There are no build hosts in the auto-tester fleet that are running
> >> unsupported platforms.  If any of them are "too old" then we need to
> >> formally deprecate one or more platforms.
> >
> > This is one of the tests that failed [1]. That info block says it's
> > running "Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0". According this [2], that's OS X
> > Mavericks. According this [3], support for Mavericks was dropped in
> > 2016. That's two years ago.
> >
> >> For what it's worth, the dmd build log for each build has an info
> >> block at the beginning with details of the os and tool versions in use.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/show-run.ghtml?projectid=1&runid=3473553&dataid=24663324&isPull=true
> >
> >
> > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Release_history
> >
> > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Mavericks
> >
>
> That's my vm, and I'm happy to update if Brad agrees. There is some
> value in having older systems for the language to be able to build/use
> for support. I would tend to say for macos, however, that the likelihood
> of someone running mavericks is pretty low. Any computer that runs
> Mavericks will go up to El Capitan, and the upgrades are free. It makes
> sense to deprecate support for Mavericks, and possibly even Yosemite. El
> capitan should still be supported for older hardware, and some people
> may be stuck on it due to GC-using apps that they depend on (I know my
> wife uses an older version of quickbooks that requires GC, and won't run
> on sierra).
>
> What I CAN do, also, is make a backup of that VM, upgrade it to el
> capitan, and keep it around in case anyone complains that they have issues.

This sounds like a good plan. I'd appreciate!


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