Hi Steven, Thanks for your note. I can't speak with absolute authority, but I will point out that Julia is put together by students, academics, and volunteers, not a commercial company. It takes quite a bit of work to maintain. Given this, they do an amazing job, but the fact that supporting OSX 10.6 requires a bit of extra work (and access to a machine running 10.6), it's rather unlikely it can be supported for anything close to the next 5 years.
Cheers! Kevin On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Steven Siew <[email protected]> wrote: > I am still using Snow Leopard because it has many good features like > virtual screens and it is super fast and stable. > > Please support the 10.6 for the next 5 years. > > Thank you > > > On Friday, January 10, 2014 2:16:51 PM UTC+11, 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 >> >
