Support for Mac OSX 10.5

[Mark Schonewille]

Exactly, Devin! LiveCode is just getting back on the educational market 
and now they are about to lose it again!


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On 2/25/2014 18:02, Devin Asay wrote:
> A little historical perspective:
>
> Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" was released in April 2005, nearly 9 years ago. RunRev only recently announced it is dropping support for Tiger. (In v. 6.6?)
>
> The transition to Intel processors happened in 2006, 8 years ago.
>
> OS X 10.5 was released in October 2007, 6.5 years ago.
>
> Dropping support for 10.5 won't affect me much, if at all, but I do worry about the many primary and secondary schools, public and private, who still depend on old hardware. (Richmond, this is your cue.) :)
>
> My recommendation would be for RunRev to commit to maintaining LC 6.6 for at least another year, and even after that keeping it available for download for PPC/10.5 users.
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> So I agree with the prevailing sentiment to drop 10.5 support so we can move forward with newer technologies, with this caveat.
>
> My .02.
>
> Devin
>