[OS X TeX] comments on 10.3 support
Michael S. Hanson
mshanson at wesleyan.edu
Fri Aug 18 18:39:01 CEST 2006
On Aug 18, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Adam Maxwell wrote:
> 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.
FWIW, I still use 10.3.9 regularly on my PowerBook, although my
desktops are all at >= 10.4.5. However, if these statistics from
OmniGroup are in any way representative, my PB is in a distinct
minority.... <http://update.omnigroup.com/>
-- Mike
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