[OS X TeX] comments on 10.3 support

Jason Davies ophiochos at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 18:01:02 CEST 2006


>How many people are still using Panther (OS X 10.3) regularly?  Since
>we can no longer test/debug BibDesk on it, it's becoming harder to
>maintain "support" with any degree of certainty that it actually works.
> Dropping our notional support would allow us to remove some hacks (of
>varying degrees of nastiness), and probably make our primary platform
>(Tiger) more reliable.
>
>This only means that 10.3.9 users would be limited to using the last
>10.3-compatible release, whatever that happens to be, but it would no
>longer be updated regularly.

I use one machine on 10.3.9 and one on Tiger. But I can probably live with the old version on the older machine...
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