[Development] Remove OSX 10.6 Build?

[Ziller Eike]

On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Sorvig Morten <Morten.Sorvig at digia.com> wrote:

> On 20 Jan 2014, at 21:21, deDietrich Gabriel <Gabriel.deDietrich at digia.com> wrote:
>> The truth is, market share doesn’t mean anything. Point in case: According to the link above, OS X is less than 8% of the total market share. Should we then drop the Mac port completely?
> 
> Good question! Possible arguments for not discontinuing the Mac port:
> 
> - The holistic view. The single platform is not that important, but as a part of a comprehensive platform support package it becomes valuable.
> - The 8% OS X users represent a group we want to target.
> - We can use the Mac port to make Qt better. Case in point the high-dpi support developed for OS X can be used on Wayland as well.

- A good part of the OS X port is useful for the iOS port, and on the smartphone market the numbers are pretty different

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