Re: [Libreoffice] Mac OS 10.4 Support

Hi Tor, *,

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tlillqvist@novell.com> wrote:
> > I just find that "drop it because it is old" is not enough reason to
> > drop 10.4 support.
>
> Yeah, I see your point.
>
> I guess a good enough reason to drop it would be this hypothetical (but, I guess, quite possible) 
> situation, or something similar: Some volunteer wants to contribute code that makes LibreOffice 
> integrate nicely with Lion's document versioning etc. Using those features requires compiling 
> with the compiler from Xcode 4(.1) (even if one would look up and use the API in question 
> dynamically), thanks to the use of blocks 
> (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Blocks/Articles/00_Introduction.html
>  ) or whatever, and that compiler is not capable of compiling against the 10.4 SDK. And mixing 
> compilers wouldn't work either.

Yes, that would be a reason, but that also has a drawback - using
blocks requires 10.6 at least, so I don't think how likely this is.
You'll in effect drop 10.5 as well as 10.4 at the same time basically.

ciao
Christian