[Development] Remove OSX 10.6 Build?

[Robert Knight]

> If you do the math from the data available here http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
> (that’s December 2013), 10.6 accounts for slightly less than 20% of all the OS X versions. Let’s suppose those numbers reflect the reality.

For our app at least, the numbers are close to our actual OS X usage
figures. Last I checked in September 2013, 20% of Mac users were on OS
X 10.6. I should be able to get more up to date numbers if that is
useful.

As for the reason why usage of OS X 10.6 is still high - I think that
is down to awareness of the need to upgrade and the effort/time vs.
perceived benefits, as well as hardware compatibility issues. Once
browsers (FF, Chrome) make a move towards dropping 10.6 support this
might help awareness.

Regards,
Rob.

On 23 January 2014 12:09, deDietrich Gabriel
<Gabriel.deDietrich at digia.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo at digia.com> wrote:
>> On 22/01/14 9:02 , Ziller Eike wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø
>>> <tor.arne.vestbo at digia.com> wrote:
>>>> 5.3:
>>>>
>>>> - Remove support from binary packages - No CI = In practice,
>>>> deprecated, so let's be explicit about it for 5.3
>>>>
>>>> 5.4
>>>>
>>>> - Bump the dev branch to 5.4 - Remove 10.6 code as see fit - Apply
>>>> 10.6 fixes to 5.3.x (stable) as normal
>>>>
>>>> The message is "Qt 5.3 deprecates 10.6 support (but is available
>>>> for source builds for the lifetime of 5.3), and 5.4 will remove
>>>> it.”
>>>
>>> I’d support this plan, and additionally throw in:
>>>
>>> after 5.3 / Qt Creator 3.2: - drop support for compiling & running Qt
>>> Creator on 10.6
>>>
>>> We want to start using C++11 also in Qt Creator, and 10.6 is the only
>>> thing preventing that. Since 10.6 is deployment target only for Qt,
>>> we don’t necessarily need to keep “its IDE” running there (yes,
>>> that’s a Qt-centric way of looking at Qt Creator).
>>
>> I think it makes perfect sense.
>>
>> tor arne
>
>
> I second that.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dr. Gabriel de Dietrich
> Senior Software Developer
> qt.digia.com
>
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