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Robert Kaiser  
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 More options Feb 5 2010, 7:07 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Robert Kaiser <ka...@kairo.at>
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:07:30 +0100
Local: Fri, Feb 5 2010 7:07 pm
Subject: Re: Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 support in Gecko 1.9.3
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Mulder wrote:
> While Mozilla may think that dropping support for Mac OS X 10.4 is a
> good idea, you're dead wrong. There is no need to do this

1) It's not about "good" vs. "bad" idea, it's about how much pain it is
to support 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 32bit and 10.6 64bit all at the same time,
and how much time we as a community can invest into developing for and
testing on all those systems - and all that in the end for a rather tiny
minority of our total users, which the whole Mac user base still is. We
all know that it's not a "good idea", the question is how much it is a
necessity for going forward overall, as we have limited resources.

2) How do you know there's "no need to do this"? Have you actually
looked at the code and found a way to easily support 10.4 in addition to
the newer systems? I'm sure Josh as our main Mac system support
developer would be very happy to see that option and its implementation
and would welcome your work on it.

Robert Kaiser


 
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