[ANN] Updates to LiveCode's platform support policy

Peter TB Brett peter.brett at livecode.com
Thu Jul 21 14:23:40 EDT 2016


On 21/07/2016 15:08, Colin Holgate wrote:
> A couple of comments about the OS X entry:
>
> 1. The description is unnecessarily political. Under linux you take
> the time to explain the support for several different version of
> Linux, all of which added together are not as popular as Mac OS.
> Under OS X you’re almost apologizing for taking away support time for
> other platforms.

It was very difficult to decide which of the many, many, many versions 
and variants of Linux to which to extend official support.  Some 
justification for that choice was required.

It was dead easy to choose which versions of MacOS to support: the ones 
that Apple themselves support.

                                         Peter

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Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager

LiveCode 2016 Conference https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/




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