Re: [Gimp-print-devel] MacOS 10.6

[Matt B. <wal...@ma...>]

> On Feb 2, 2021, at 8:00 PM, Steve Letter via Gimp-print-devel <gim...@li...> wrote:
> 
> Let me verify I can build a version that installs and runs on 10.6.  If I can, let me build a last build for 10.6.  I can add documentation stating it is the last build to support Snow Leopard.  I will wait for Robert to prepare a release version and build both the fat version and the final 10.6 version.  Agreed?
> 
> Steve Letter

Works for me. Let them know that is a one off build for them and that there will be no future releases for Snow Leopard. 
Matt
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> 
>>> On Feb 2, 2021, at 6:16 PM, Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> wrote:
>>> 
>> On 2/2/21 3:39 PM, Matt Broughton wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 2, 2021, at 1:23 PM, Steve Letter via Gimp-print-devel
>>>> <gim...@li... <mailto:gim...@li...>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The only easily implemented option to continue support for Snow Leopard is to build a second
>>>> version without signing.  I haven't tested this but I think it would work.  Is this something we
>>>> really want though?
>>>> 
>>>> Steve Letter You're never to old to learn something stupid.  -- unknown
>>> 
>>> Just thinking out loud here.  Would it make more sense to build an unsigned package for Snow Leopard
>>> 10.6 through Sierra 10.12?  I'm thinking that may may provide a longer term solution.  We would then
>>> have a fat binary with x86_64 and arm64 with a signed package for later versions of macos.
>> 
>> If I'm reading it correctly, 10.6 is the last release that supported 32-bit platforms.  It looks
>> like very few systems were orphaned by 10.7, basically the Core Solo and Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo).
>> Other than a couple of Mac mini systems that lived on through August 2007, these were all
>> short-lived laptops that were discontinued at various times in 2006, so close to 15 years ago.  It
>> looks like a fair number more systems were orphaned by 10.8 (the Core 2 Duo ones, including some Mac
>> Pros that might have a longer lifespan), but after that, nothing was orphaned until 10.12, and then
>> only a few MacBook Air laptops.  However, 10.13 orphaned a lot of systems.
>> 
>> I would naively expect that there are more people running 10.12 (say) for whom signed packages are a
>> plus than people still running specifically 10.6, but maybe I'm wrong.  With the switch to a new
>> minor version, this seems like a convenient point to drop support for 10.6.  But again, I'm not a
>> Mac expert so I want to be a bit careful what I say.
>> 
>> 
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