LC and OS X version compatibility

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 08/08/2011 12:24 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the LiveCode release notes say about system compatibility for:
>
> LC 4.5.0: Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.6.x
>
> LC 4.6.0: Mac OS X 10.4.11 to 10.7.x
>
> Does anybody knows if there are any trouble with LC 4.5 on 10.7 lion?
>
> Is LC 4.6. not working on 10.3. anymore in general, or does it concern only
> some new features?
>
> How widespread is OS X 10.3 still out there in the wild? Do you still take
> care about panther or is it no question about to use today 4.6 and kick off
> panther compatibility?
>
> Thanks for your experience
>
> Tiemo
>
>
>
About a year ago I was over at my parents' house in Britain, and 
installed 10.3.9 onan ancient, tray-loading G3 iMac I found lurking in 
the attic. I started with 10.3 and what I can say is that 
RunRev/Livecode 4.0 would not even run until I had got the thing up to 
10.3.9.