Re: [AD] supported OSX versions

[Beoran <beoran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, that could be  my fault.

I removed some compilation warnings on OSX, in https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/commit/ebaa685e1ead4ac4fefc7cedc7296678b02a431d, and maybe I broke something. In particular Gestalt() is deprecated and should be
replaced with comparisons to floor(NSApplicationKitVersionNumber), but maybe I used the wrong versions?

It seems that about 20% of all mac users are still using 10.6 or 10.7 (http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/os-x-market-share-statistics-1-in-5-macs-still-unsupported/) 2% even lower. So I'd say we have to support at least 10.6, maybe even until 10.4 as it was if it's not too much of a burden to stay backward compatible. Internally it seems OSX 10.4 should still be supported, so I think it's worth while to check this out.

Personally I use a mountain lion VM (which was hard to set up) to develop on OSX, but I feel it would be better to use a real mac system if I could afford it. The OSX port needs some attention to get rid of certain deprecations on newer OSX versions, and at the same time to make sure it still remains backwards compatible... So maybe someone else how has a real OSX system could step in to clean Allegro on it up a bit?

Kind Regards,

B.


Op 15-09-15 19:21, Elias Pschernig schreef:

I was just wonder, which OSX versions do we support? I just noticed that on my OSX 10.6 which could run Allegro 5 back in January, now newly compiled programs die on startup with an unsupported selector runtime error.

It was compiled on the same machine and XCode was never updated, so apparently something was added in the meantime which makes it break. Is it worthwhile for me to investigate? That OSX probably should be retired for good anyway - but then we may as well officially only support OSX 10.7+ (or 10.8+)?

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