On 2018-05-21 4:41 PM, Francois LE COAT wrote:
Chris Ilias writes:
Francois LE COAT wrote:
Why versions of SeaMonkey are not available for Mac OS X 10.6.8 ? It's
called "Programmed Obsolescence" because there's nothing to explain !
>> The underlying Mozilla code that SeaMonkey uses no longer supports macOS
10.6.
Well, it "free sofware" ! Why wouldn't it happen under GNU/Linux ?
Here's a direct quote from the time it was announced for Firefox in 2016:
"The motivation for this change is that we have continued failures that
are specific to these old operating systems and don't have the resources
on engineering teams to prioritize these bugs. Especially with the
deployment of e10s we're seeing intermittent and permanently failures on
MacOS 10.6 that we are not seeing elsewhere. We get very little testing
of old MacOS versions from our prerelease testers and cannot dedicate
much paid staff testing support to these platforms. We also have an
increasingly fragile set of old hardware that supports automated tests
on 10.6 and do not intend to replace this.
This will affect approximately 1.2% of our current release population."
I don't know what the percentage is for SeaMonkey.
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