-- In a dark back office, Richmond, wearing dark glasses, a fedora, and a tan trenchcoat, dumps a large bag of Monopoly money onto the table. Marks eyes are now like saucers. "Moot", Richmond says under his breath, then leaves the room with a strut, as if he is carrying the world in his pocket. --
~Roger On Jun 8, 2017 6:19 AM, "Mark Waddingham via use-livecode" < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 2017-06-08 12:04, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: > >> So, backwards compatibility does not interest you? >> > > Seriously - you ask that question? > > LiveCode 9 still happily runs stacks which were written in the early days > of MetaCard. > > We are *extremely* careful not to break existing scripts and stacks - we > either do accidentally (if that is so, we fix those issues with a high > degree of priority); if intentionally then it is only for a very good > reason. > > I, for one, run Mac Machines running MacOS 10.4 PPC. >> > > LiveCode 6.6.5 was the last version of LiveCode to support PowerPC on Mac > - so given we are talking about LiveCode *9* you point is entirely moot. > > A lot of these machine are being dumped in poor countries where they can >> be used >> for good purposes. >> > > I appreciate that, but since Apple haven't supported PowerPC for a very > long time, and their toolchains (the things we need to use to build the > engine) haven't for a very long time - there's little hope of PowerPC being > resurrected in a future LiveCode version unless someone stumps up a very > very large amount of cash (we are talking on the order of $100,000+ as a > start, and then a significant amount for ongoing maintenance) and even then > finding reliable hardware which has the specs needed to do engine > development is becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode