On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:33:33 +0300, parafin wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:25:15 -0500 (EST) > Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:43:12 +0300, parafin wrote: >> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:28:09 +0100 >> > Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Just want to point out that 10.6 was released 7.5 years ago and there >> > was 6 new major OS X versions since. >> >> But a lot of older Macs that are otherwise going strong can't run >> anything newer. > > Blame Apple. > From our side we supported 10.6 for as long as it was feasible. There's > no point for us to make big efforts to support ancient environments in > newer releases.
I'm not saying "blame anyone in particular". We've had to make the same kind of decision with Gutenprint (as of 5.2.12, we've dropped support for 10.5 after having earlier dropped support for 10.3 and 10.4). Just recognize that it does hurt some people. Darktable is, to be sure, more CPU and graphics intensive than Gutenprint (which runs entirely in the background), making it less likely that people will want to run it on really old systems. -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
