This is probably a bit off-topic for this list, but is the only Mac-specific mailing list I subscribe to, and Mac OSX versioning seems to affect MacPython and many apps built with it. I was prompted to write after seeing Brian Lenihan's post about PySol for Mac OSX. Visiting the page I saw "10.3 only". *sigh* Yet another app I can't run on my laptop.
Here's the rub. Apple seems to rather quickly drop support for what appear (numerically) to be minor releases. 10.1 is long gone. I have 10.3 on my G5 and 10.2 on my laptop. I'm loathe to buy 10.3 at this point for my laptop because 10.4 is in beta (right? Apple offered a preview version of 10.4 to me for $500 recently). I figure as soon as I buy 10.3, 10.4 final will be released. 10.3 will start to corrode and I'll be stuck again with "old" software once again. Only now I have two Macs, so the costs are double. It seems that Apple's upgrade policy almost forces me to buy new versions as soon as they are released. If I snooze when new releases come out I quickly get left in the dust and wind up either skipping a version or upgrading right before the next release. (This has happened to me in the past.) I really hate to say this, but in this respect backward compatibility in Windows seems to be much better. Am I missing something? Thx, -- Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mojam.com/ _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
