Re: [Libreoffice] Mac OS 10.4 Support

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 20:21 -0700, Joseph Powers wrote:
> > Just doing a little research and wanted to report my findings:
>
>        Wow - what a nice write-up; we have similar problems on Linux deciding
> what versions of what underlying infrastructure to support and/or when
> to axe it.
>
>        It sounds like 3.5 is a good place to make a platform cut for some of
> this stuff to make our lives easier.
>
>        I'd love an ack from Norbert / Christian - to make a final decision, or
> if it is truly controversial we can discuss it at the TSC meeting next
> week.


http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?spider=1&qprid=10
show that the ratio of Mac OS 10.4 vs Mac OS in general is about 6%
down from 12.5% a year ago.

With 3.4 keeping support for 10.4, and at the current rate of
attrition of the 10.4 installed based, I think that the 3.4 life-cycle
will be enough to cater for that demographic

so:

Ack for bumping minimum requirement to 10.5


Caveat: Like tml_ I don't consider myself a 'Mac' developer... just a
Dev that happen to own a Mac.

That being said, Christian is the person that need convincing.

Norbert