I would like to add on to this that the Homebrew project is not building bottles for snow leopard anymore either, which means that binary dependencies for things like Winston and such will be harder to keep up to date. It doesn't mean the user can't still build them from source (or even still build them from source using Homebrew!) but it does mean that the experience won't be as seamless as it once was. -E
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Hans W Borchers <[email protected]>wrote: > Indeed, I am running OS X 10.6.8 on a 4 years old iMac (64-bit), no chance > to update. > Up to now I was not able to generate any graphics with Julia, partly > because Homebrew is not working, etc. > Maybe, all this is a good reason to upgrade the hardware sometime this > year. > > > On Friday, January 10, 2014 4:16:51 AM UTC+1, Viral Shah wrote: >> >> We are trying to figure out how many users are still using 10.6, and if >> we can officially drop support for 10.6. Currently, we are trying to >> support 4 releases of OS X, and requiring at least 10.7 means that we only >> have to worry about 64-bit julia on the mac. >> >> Please reply to this thread if you think we should keep supporting 10.6. >> >> This came up here: >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5329 >> >> Unofficially, we will probably still accept small patches that keep 10.6 >> support alive when built from source. >> >> -viral >> >
