From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: macOS support
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:34:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21725aad-6d7f-8ace-dffc-347bb75616bc@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1sg7pz9l.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> So I strongly encourage those users who think they're stuck with OSX
> 10.6 to upgrade to a Free operating system.
This makes sense to me too.
Generally speaking Emacs and other GNU projects shouldn't bother supporting
platforms that are no longer supported by their original issuers. For example,
starting in 2014 we no longer needed to bother to support IRIX, because SGI no
longer supported IRIX.
As I understand it, Apple itself supports only the last three or four macOS
versions. This is not a formal rule that Apple publishes -- Apple being Apple
keeps such info a secret -- but it's a reasonably accurate description of their
behavior. With this in mind, I suggest that we now stop worrying about OS X 10.9
"Mavericks" and earlier, as Apple itself no longer supports these older
releases. This doesn't mean we need to rip out older code immediately, it just
means we shouldn't worry about these older releases. Really, we have better
things to do with our limited resources.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-26 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-13 16:18 bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos Aaron Jensen
2018-03-13 16:36 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-20 23:39 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-21 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 16:25 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-21 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 17:31 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-21 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 18:31 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-21 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 19:19 ` Alan Third
2018-03-21 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 20:12 ` Alan Third
2018-03-22 5:40 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-22 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-22 15:39 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-22 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-23 1:49 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-23 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-23 19:52 ` Alan Third
2018-03-23 20:57 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-23 21:47 ` macOS support (was: bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos) Alan Third
2018-03-24 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-24 7:18 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-24 10:27 ` Alan Third
2018-03-24 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-25 20:08 ` David Reitter
2018-03-25 21:24 ` Tim Cross
2018-03-25 22:31 ` macOS support Stefan Monnier
2018-03-26 1:34 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-03-26 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-26 5:41 ` Tim Cross
2018-03-26 5:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-03-26 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-24 7:20 ` bug#30800: 26.0.91; unknown crash on macos Aaron Jensen
2018-03-24 10:29 ` Alan Third
2018-03-24 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-24 16:18 ` Alan Third
2018-03-24 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-25 19:17 ` Alan Third
2018-03-24 10:49 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-03-24 14:12 ` Alan Third
2018-03-25 20:14 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-03-26 18:37 ` Alan Third
2018-03-26 23:03 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-30 11:37 ` Alan Third
2018-03-30 11:57 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-22 5:35 ` Aaron Jensen
2018-03-22 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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