Catalina

[Bob Sneidar]

It's a good point. If any commercial developers using LC (or ANY dev environment) are going to have issues with Catalina, it might be a good idea to mail blast them and warn them if your app is not going to be compatible, and even provide a general time frame for when they will be. 

Also, I think the advice to make sure a full backup is made before a major OS update cannot be overstressed. Customers who fail to do this and then find that not only are LC 32 bit apps not going to run but a LOT of other apps won't either, and then have no way to revert, really need to bear some responsibility for this. 

I know that is not something you can tell a customer, but this issue is not unique to LC, so everyone who uses a computer at all, should already be aware of the issues that can arise when upgrading an entire OS. 

Bob S


> On Oct 9, 2019, at 08:50 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Customer (at least ours) do not understand 32 bit vs 64-bit. They will only know that (a) Apple says there is a new update for their computer and they click to update; or (b) as a member of some university or business, their computer is upgraded (perhaps at their request, perhaps as part of a planned upgrade cycle).