Hi,
If this can hep the debate, I'll answer about the support of previous
versions of Mac OS .
No need, if the machine will run OSX and X11 it will run OOo.
Not quite... It must be running OS 10.3.9 as a bare minimum. Few
(if any Mac
owners would be running earlier versions, but if they were than
there is no
way that OO.o 2.x would run, and they'd be stuck with 1.1.x
This does concern a very little number of users.
Hardware
spec is a PC thing. I'm told by a Mac entusiast friend that Macs are
above that. :)
Not quite correct. I have a mac which will only run OS 10.2 or
earlier. The
reason is its hardware specs... :)
One year ago, the amount of people still using Mac OS X 10.2 aka
Jaguar, was less than 2%
No idea what it does represent today, but sure, this is *sure* less.
Mac OS X porting project does not have enough resources*** to
maintain Mac OS X 10.2 (too much important changes between 10.2 and
10.3) , so the minimal requirement is Mac OS X10.3, quite correct IMHO.
*** See my blog about what are our needs for native port : http://
eric.bachard.free.fr/news/
Conclusion:
- consider Mac OS 10.2 as obsolete is not the best, but a good
compromise.
- minimal requirement : Mac OS X 10.3.9
Regards,
Eric Bachard
@alex : It is up to you to provide us (big) patches to make it work
on Mac OS X 10.2.
I have tried, and e.g. the (maybe complete ) locale detection part
has to be rewritten, since Apple decided to change everything without
assume easy compatibility for several functions.
Other non trivial point, dlopen part is not the same *at all* between
10.2 and 10.3... and I probably forgot some other code parts to
rewrite. If I'm not wrong.
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