Support for Mac OSX 10.5

Jerry Jensen jhj at jhj.com
Tue Feb 25 14:34:26 EST 2014


On Feb 25, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Richmond <richmondmathewson at ...> writes:
> 
>> As "King of Retro" I would like to say 'keep Mac OS 10.5', but realise 
>> that, frankly, that the work involved
>> in not justified: so drop it.
>> 
>> BUT . . . Please continue to make LIvecode 6.5 and 6.6 commercial 
>> licenses avaialble who feel compelled to build for Mac PPC computers.
> 
> Full agreement from me. I'm anxious that we *finally* move forward to
> Cocoa... the writing has been on the wall for quite some time now. I don't
> think the problem is PPC vs Intel so much as older non-upgradable hardware.
> And for that the changes should be more under the hood so that applications
> are compatible at the script level.

Mark expressed my sentiments well. I have a few PPC machines doing single-purpose LC jobs out there, but they are stable and won't be affected. Actually, the one I use the most was built with LC 5.5.6 I think.
.Jerry





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