Re: [TeXstudio-list] TXS for "old" OS X

[Benito v. d. Z. <be...@be...>]

Hi,
> Then I checked on the TXS website and, indeed, the current versions of 
> TXS are labelled for OS X 10.7.5 and 10.8; so I guessed it was a 
> compatibility problem between OS X versions.
Since no one of the developers uses a mac, we only have versions for the 
OSX versions that are compiled by some users and provided to us.

And they do not seem to have 10.5 anymore...

> would it be possible to keep on your website a (previous) version of 
> TXS compatible with older versions of OS X ?
Actually there is one.
But you have to view the page source, where you can find a html comment 
with the old versions.

And on the sourceforge download page they are all listed anyways


Benito

On 02/07/2013 06:45 PM, Mathieu Leroy-Lerêtre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few weeks ago, I used TXS for a LaTeX course, to students who had 
> never used LaTeX before. They liked it! One issue arised, though, when 
> a student (under Mac OS X 10.5) tried to install it at home, after the 
> lesson: she couldn't... (more precisely, the computer said "unable to 
> launch TXS" or sth like that). Then I checked on the TXS website and, 
> indeed, the current versions of TXS are labelled for OS X 10.7.5 and 
> 10.8; so I guessed it was a compatibility problem between OS X versions.
>
> Even though OS X 10.5 is not an up-to-date version, it seems it's 
> still used (dunno... I'm not a Mac user). Hence my question: would it 
> be possible to keep on your website a (previous) version of TXS 
> compatible with older versions of OS X ?
>
>  (It turned out the student finally managed to install TXS, by finding 
> a previous version compatible with OS X 10.5 (TXS 2.3) in the 5th page 
> of a Google search... But other could be in the same situation in the 
> futur...)
>
> Regards,
> -Mathieu
>
> -- 
> Mathieu LEROY-LERÊTRE
>
>
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