On Jun 19, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> In view of simplifying our lives we've got a few options here:
>
> 1) EOL 10.5, and defer 10.6 for a while. This could be done
> essentially immediately, with all of the 10.5 packages being stashed in
> a 10.5-EOL directory similarly to we do for 10.4.
>
> 2) EOL 10.5 and 10.6/i386, keeping 10.6/x86_64 around for a while
> longer. This will take additional tweaks to fink but I don't know of a
> reason at this point that precludes this.
>
> 3) EOL 10.5 and 10.6. This is probably the simplest option, because it
> just requires people to stop committing to the 10.4/ tree, and a new
> fink release which is set only to acknowledge 10.7 and later.
>
> Anyway, feedback would be appreciated.
For my own selfish reasons, i prefer #1. I have several working
machines that aren't acceptable to 10.7 or newer, and frankly i've come to
loath Lion on the one that is. I have no intention of moving to 10.8 as it
seems to be moving further in the wrong direction, and will probably end up
reinstalling 10.6 when support for 10.7 is dropped. Sébastien rightfully
mentions the tradition of supporting only two recent versions of the OS. Well,
yeah, Apple used to only support two recent versions. It is, however, *still*
providing updates to Snow Leopard. I don't have any numbers, but browsing web
forums leads me to believe that masses of Macs are stuck at 10.6.
Now that i've said my piece, is there anything i can do to assist?
Sent from Darlene-Lowes-Mac-mini
River Tam: "Also? I can kill you with my brain."
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