I use 10.6, but have a 64-bit computer. I think most of the reason people that I know have stayed on this operating system is due to the ability to run old PowerPC programs, which does not exist in 10.7 above.
That being said I ended up building the application myself due to errors related to the libcurl.4.dylib version (caused Homebrew install to choke). I just wanted to add that building the app required gfortran, which I was able to get here ( http://r.research.att.com/tools/ ). These versions are compatible with particular versions of XCode. I couldn't use the ones listed on the GitHub page as they all required 10.7 and above. On Thursday, January 9, 2014 7:16:51 PM UTC-8, 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 >
