Agreed. The minimum OS X version for Xcode 7.3 is 10.11.0, which would make El 
Capitan required to run Swift 3.0. 

- Andrew Hyatt
ahyatt...@icloud.com

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 11:23, David Abraham via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Would this be a temporary limitation? I'd prefer to see Swift available to 
> any development environment even on Apple Platforms.  It contributes to the 
> message of openness. 
> 
> -Dave 
> 
> Enviado desde mi iPhone
> 
>> El mar 29, 2016, a las 2:02 PM, Joe Groff via swift-dev 
>> <swift-dev@swift.org> escribió:
>> 
>> Xcode 7.3 included a fix for the Apple linker that's necessary to support 
>> some of the metadata format changes we're making in Swift 3. I have some 
>> workarounds in place that I'd like to remove since they suppress linker 
>> coalescing of some constant strings. Would anyone object to us requiring 
>> using Xcode 7.3 to develop Swift for OS X and other Apple platforms? If not, 
>> we could conditionalize the workarounds behind a flag, though that's 
>> additional complexity and testing surface I'd like to avoid.
>> 
>> -Joe
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