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Re: macOS support
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: macOS support |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:31:29 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> suiggesting we immediately drop support for earlier versions, but 10.6 was
> released in 2009 - a 9 to 10 year backwards compatibility is probably
> excessive - 5 years would probably be a better target.
As a user of one of those machines which are only supported upto OSX
10.6 (a 2006 macmini), I'm split on this one:
- on the one hand, I strongly disagree with Apple and the rest of the
industry who wants to force users to keep buying new machines, even
tho the old ones would still do the job just fine. So I'd rather that
Emacs doesn't encourage its users to buy a new machine just because we
don't support their version of OSX any more.
- on the other, I of course don't use OSX but Debian on that machine,
and find it actually supports the hardware better than OSX ever has
(e.g. I can use both the VGA and the DVI output at the same time).
So I strongly encourage those users who think they're stuck with OSX
10.6 to upgrade to a Free operating system.
-- Stefan
- macOS support (was: bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos), Alan Third, 2018/03/23
- Re: macOS support (was: bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/24
- Re: macOS support (was: bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos), Aaron Jensen, 2018/03/24
- Re: macOS support (was: bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos), David Reitter, 2018/03/25
- Re: macOS support (was: bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos), Tim Cross, 2018/03/25
- Re: macOS support,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: macOS support, Paul Eggert, 2018/03/25
- Re: macOS support, Stefan Monnier, 2018/03/25
- Re: macOS support, Tim Cross, 2018/03/26
- Re: macOS support, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2018/03/26
- Re: macOS support, Richard Stallman, 2018/03/26