Support for Mac OSX 10.5

[Shawn Blc]

+1 drop support.


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Paul Hibbert <paulhibbert at mac.com> wrote:

> I would be happy to see LC move on and drop support for Mac OS X 10.5 in
> future, especially if they still supply LC6.6, I don't see any good reason
> hold up so many other developers and their clients for the few that don't
> want to move on.
>
> If RR continue to supply LC6.6 with support for Mac OS X 10.5 then I don't
> see where the issue is. If a dev want's to support older versions to keep
> his/her clients happy, then they are the ones that need to put in the extra
> effort and charge accordingly, not the rest of us that don't want or need
> it.
>
> As far as schools are concerned, I taught Photoshop in schools for 7 years
> and they refused to upgrade from PS Elements 2 with their reasoning based
> purely on cost, even at education prices, so I'm sure most of them will be
> happy to run LC 6.6 until such time as they can upgrade their ageing
> equipment, it must happen eventually. If they can't/won't run newer
> hardware how can they expect to run the most up-to-date software,
> especially when they will be getting if free?
>
> I haven't seen any demand for PPC/Universal support, even though I did
> offer it to my clients, nobody ever requested it. That puts demand
> "according to my experience" at below 0.05%.
>
> Looking forward to a faster, leaner and more modern LiveCode.
>
> Paul
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