[ANN] Updates to LiveCode's platform support policy

[Roger Eller]

There is political bias anytime the source of the info has "mac" in the
name of the website.  I think LiveCode was very thoughtful to detail their
reasons, and I didn't consider it a political apology at all.

~Roger


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Colin Holgate <colinholgate at gmail.com>
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.
>
> http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/18/os-x-versus-linux-developers/ <
> http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/18/os-x-versus-linux-developers/>
>
> 2. It could be worth changing the title to OS X / macOS, and including
> version 10.12 in the list. I know that it’s not released, but it is in
> public beta, and I’m pretty sure you intend to support it. LiveCode seems
> to be running well in 10.12.
>
> As far as I can tell LiveCode apps run under iOS 10 ok too, which again is
> not released, but would there be any harm in stating now that you intend to
> support it?
>
>
> > On Jul 21, 2016, at 7:09 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today, we are announcing some changes to the list of
> officially-supported platforms, i.e. the platforms that we use to test
> LiveCode, and that you can normally expect our support team will be able to
> help you with.
> >
> > Please read more this change on the LiveCode blog:
> > https://livecode.com/updated-platform-support-policy/
> >
> >                                          Peter
> >
> > --
> > Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> > LiveCode Technical Project Manager
> >
> > LiveCode 2016 Conference https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/
> >
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