Re: OSX@PowerPC: Dropping support - why?

Well, I finally did it.

Actually, it's currently hard to support SDK 10.4u, because it is
incompatible with gcc-4.2,
so I decided to begin with SDK 10.5. Meanwhile, 10.5 also supports CoreText
at enough level.

Perfectly working LO:
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.alpha0_20130831_MacOS_PPC.dmg

About Box ;)
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/lo_4.2_git-about_box-screenshot.png

$ git branch
* tenfour
$ git shortlog -s -n --author="dougmencken"
    43  dougmencken



On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Douglas Mencken <dougmencken@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > As I found, LibreOffice community suddenly ditched support for Mac OS X @
> > PowerPC since version 4.1.0.
>
> On top of what cloph already explained, I would add that this was not
> 'sudden'
> The release note of 4.0 already warned that 10.4/10/5 SDK and hence
> PPC where 'deprecated'
> which means.. will be dropped soon, likely at the next version.
>
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Feature_removal_.2F_deprecation
> "Deprecated Mac / PPC as a platform, raising our base-line to 10.6."
>
> it was added in the release note of 4.0 at that point:
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=ReleaseNotes/4.0&oldid=59392
>
> that is 11th of December 2012... more than 8 months before 4.1
> release... hardly 'sudden'
>
> > Specifically, it has been done with the
> > following two commits by plain removal of code:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7aa6f1b01481c1d0f1a12f56ad197c797056c37b
> >
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d8842c2221cb5e6ea958381f9dcd76d9bb9bbafc
>
> Actually that was already effectively broken before that, due to the
> introduction of OS feature/api that were not backward compatible with
> 10.4/10.5.
> The commit you indicate are just the one that makes it clear and
> official.. but the tree before these commit where already not
> buildable on ppc.
>
>
> But as Cloph said: if you have the hardware and the time to dedicate
> to the task... your welcome to maintain backward compat with 10.4...
> we will even gladly take the patches, as long as it does not break, or
> put undue requirements to,  the other platforms supported.
>
>
> PS: if it has not been for cloph perseverance and dedication, the PPC
> platform would have been drop way earlier... prolly as soon as the 3.4
> release. Bear in mind Apple timeline
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors
>
> Apple has not sold a PPC hardware in 7 years.
> Apple dropped PPC support from their SDK 4 years ago.
> Apple formally dropped support for any PPC software 2 years ago.
>
> as the saying goes: you can't be more royalist than the king. (
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%AAtre_plus_royaliste_que_le_roi )
>
> Norbert