Re: dropping support for osx 10.4 x86

[Colin Hall]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:07:55PM +0100, Janek Warcho wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/9/12 12:57 PM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:51:20PM +0000, Graham Percival wrote:
> >>> If somebody can make 10.4-x86 work, then it would be great to
> >>> officially support it again in the future.  However, I think
> >>> that's too far away; delaying 2.16.0 for that doesn't make sense.
> >>
> >>oops, I should delay all emails by 5 minutes or something.
> >>
> >>In case anybody thinks I'm being unfair to osx users: one of the
> >>strongest reasons to move forward with 2.16 right now is so that
> >>we can get a stable lilypond in the hands of 10.7 users.  Or, to
> >>put it in my terms, "to make those annoying 'why doesn't lilypond
> >>run on 10.7?' people shut up".
> >>
> >>This decision is a balance between 10.7 users vs. 10.4-x86 users;
> >>the sanity of main developers vs. other stuff, etc.  I think that
> >>moving forward with 2.16 is the right thing to do.
> >
> > I totally agree.
> >
> > There is no reason to add a separate download for lilypad on 10.4-x86.
> >
> > Users of 10.4-x86 can upgrade software, or they can use any other text
> > editor to do lilypond work.  The only thing not working is the GUI app,
> > which isn't really necessary.
> 
> +1

Agreed.

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Colin Hall