Re: [MACTCL] Drop Carbon support from Tk-Aqua?

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

On 2012-10-01, at 6:46 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw...@co...> wrote:
> On 9/26/12 1:55 PM, Kevan Hashemi wrote:
>> So far as I can tell, the Cocoa version will run on OSX10.4. Can you
>> confirm this for me? I have some old machines doing data acquisition in
>> my laboratory that run 10.4 and 10.5, and I see no reason to retire them.
> 
> Sorry for not responding to this.
> 
> Cocoa requires 10.5 minimum. There were some significant changes in the 
> Objective-C runtime on that version of OS X, and it's the first OS 
> version to fully support 64-bit.
> 
> If you need to support 10.4, stick with Carbon.

And keep it off the internet.  Apple is sticking with the current + last support model, so even 10.6 is on the last set of security patches before it's obsolescence from a support perspective.

Jeff