I'm blocked, help me!

[Steven Schveighoffer]

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.

-Steve