Manfred Bergmann wrote: > it would be a Leopard only > application. > IIRC the majority of users that had questions about MacSword actually > were using Leopard. >
We have thought about which OSes we should support for BibleDesktop. The conclusion was to support at least the current and the previous and to not actively support earlier versions. We also concluded that we would not knowingly prevent earlier platforms from running the latest release without great gain. The way this came about is that we upgraded to Java 5. This was over a year after Tiger had been released. I had just gotten a Mac Mini with Tiger and was un-aware that Java 5 would never be ported to Panther. Within the next few weeks we got reports that it wouldn't run on Panther. We then downgraded back to Java 1.4.2. Our target users include missionaries, pastors, churches, ... with old, hand-me-down laptops. At the time, BD was not close to being feature complete and had some nagging bugs. For support reasons, it was not the appropriate time to make such a change. I didn't want to be suggesting that a user had to pay money (for an OS upgrade) to use our software. Once we are reasonably feature complete and relatively bug free, we plan to do a major development shift to using WebKit (or its equivalent on other platforms). This may prevent us from running on older OSes. If you were to announce a MacSword upgrade, I think that many would want to get the upgrade. Especially since your beta is so much better than 1.2.x. All this is to recommend that Leopard is very recent and Tiger shouldn't be abandoned just yet. -- DM _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
