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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be nice to move to 10.9 SDK for the current development work, for
speed/security reasons.  I can keep the 10.7 SDK around for the stable
builds for any new 4 series stable releases.

OTOH, I don't mind keeping them around--until someone complains that they
stopped working. The only real problem I have with keeping 10.7 and 10.8
support around is that I don't know anyone who wants to keep a 10.7 or 10.8
system around for us to do testing on, if anyone has problems with it.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L


On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently the website states OSX 10.7 through 10.11 supported.
>
> 10.7 - unsupported by apple since october 2014
> 10.8 - unsupported by apple since september 2015
>
> These are currently still supported due to using a 10.7 SDK for building.
>
> The main issue i see a problem with still "supporting" these operating
> systems is it allows people to file bugs that may only be applicable
> on an operating system that none of the osx devs have so will be
> unable to fix.
>
> We really have 2 options for this
>
> 1) remove the claim to support 10.7/10.8 from the website and any
> other places. This would allow us to mark any bugs as won't fix due to
> lack of developer resources (if it only applies to osx 10.7/8)
> 2) move to the 10.9 SDK therefore completely dropping support for 10.7/10.8
>
> Due to the 10.7/8 SDK no longer being updated there may also be
> security issues with continuing to use the SDK.
>
> As 4.0 was released in late 2015 that could be marked as the last
> version to support 10.7/8 and any more point releases of it can still
> be built to support 10.7/10.8 if Adam won't have any problems doing
> this.
>
> OSX 10.9 Mavericks was released in October 2013 and is down to
> security updates only with the current OSX being 10.11
>
> If there are any devs still using 10.7/8 please speak up including
> reasons for still using 10.7/8
>
> thanks
>
> Simon
>
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