Hello, Just to add to this, GStreamer 1.x currently supports OS X 10.8, so it would be great if GLib continued to support at least that. Support for older versions should, I suppose, be welcome as well since Ryan says he's willing to maintain it. :)
Cheers, Nirbheek On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt <g...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > Hello, I'm the maintainer of glib2 in the MacPorts package management system. > > glib 2.46.0 was recently released, and attempting to configure it produces > this error: > > checking OSX version >= 10.9.0... no > configure: error: OSX version is too old! > > glib 2.45.2 and earlier worked fine on older versions of OS X, but 2.45.3 and > later claim to require 10.9. > > My understanding is that the implementation of GNotification support for OS X > [1] necessitated this increase in minimum OS version. But this huge jump in > minimum OS version makes glib unusable on hundreds of older Mac models [2] > that cannot be upgraded to OS X 10.9 that were previously able to use glib. I > urge you to reconsider this action and reinstate support for older versions > of OS X by making the GNotification support optional. Clearly, since > GNotification support was just added, no existing apps that used glib and > that already worked on OS X can have required this functionality. > > I originally expressed this concern in the issue tracker [1] but was advised > to bring it up on the mailing list for discussion instead. > > In response to my comment in that ticket, doubt was expressed as to the > usability of glib on older systems, even prior to this. I can at least tell > you that Graphviz, which uses glib, worked fine all the way back to OS X > 10.4, which is the earliest system I tested. I'm happy to run your test suite > on older systems and report bugs for any problems found. > > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747146 > > [2] http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_capability/maximum-macos-supported.html > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
