Re: [Boost-users] [Context] Mac OS X support?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Context] Mac OS X support?
From: Mauricio Gomes (mgpensar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-10 18:25:38

Just to let you know that here it is another Mac OS X 10.4 boost user.
Mauricio.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Julian Gonggrijp <j.gonggrijp_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Nat Linden wrote:
>
> >>> However, at this moment in history, one must ask how important it
> >>> still is to support Mac OS X <= 10.4?
> >>
> >> I'm completely ignorant about today's marketshare of Mac OS X 10.4, but
> I
> >> can tell you I'd rather like to see it supported for a while.
> Personally,
> >> I own an i686 machine with Mac OS X 10.6 and a PPC machine with Mac OS X
> 10.4.
> >> The latter is quite old and won't be able to pull anything more modern
> than
> >> 10.4. Therefore my only option for PPC testing is under Mac OS X 10.4.
> >
> > Mmm, I have no hard data either (anyone?) -- but it seems to me that
> > the importance of testing on OS X 10.4 depends not only on how many
> > such machines are still in use, but on how many of those machines the
> > owners are still installing new software.
>
> I agree completely to your line of reasoning. I'm an example of a 10.4
> machine
> owner that still installs new software, but again, one person is a small
> sample
> size.
>
> -Julian
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