My point is that software-wise the situation is the same for Linux - it's nearly impossible to have darktable 2.2 on, say, 6 years old Debian distro. The difference of course being that you can still install newer Linux distributions on virtually anything still being used, while Apple has a policy of obsoleting hardware much more faster. But that's something Mac users should have been aware of when they were buying Apple's hardware - eventually you get stuck with outdated software even though hardware is still OKish. Or you can install Linux on it;))
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:04:27 -0500 (EST) Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
