Dropping the 10.5 OS X *SDK*

[Rafael Ávila de Espíndola]

I started looking at what needs to be done for supporting OS X 10.7. One point of concern was that newer versions of Xcode (>=4) don't include a 10.5 SDK and it would be nice to keep our support for 10.5.

Since the new versions do include a 10.6 SDK, one option is to use the 10.6 SDK with a deployment target of 10.5. I tried this and with bug 674440 fixed I was able to, on 10.7 with Xcode 4.1, build a copy of firefox that worked on 10.5. I have uploaded the dmg to

http://people.mozilla.org/~respindola/firefox-8.0a1.en-US.mac.dmg

I opened bug 674655 for the actual change (using the 10.6 sdk). One dependency is that, if we are to use the 10.6 sdks, we have to move our build to (at least) 10.6 machines. Currently only our debug builds are done on 10.5 and I opened bug 674647 to track the options we have to move them to 10.6.

Does anyone have a dependency on the 10.5 sdk that I might have missed?

Cheers,
Rafael

[smichaud]

> Does anyone have a dependency on the 10.5 sdk that I might have missed?

I'm not aware of any ... but that doesn't mean that none exist.

I suggest we try this change out on the trunk for a month or two,
before we start doing this on the branches.

On Jul 28, 9:08 pm, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola <respind...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

[Christian Legnitto]

FYI we can't do this on the 1.9.2 branch....we still support PPC and 10.4 there.

Thanks,
Christian

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[Rafael Ávila de Espíndola]

On 08/02/2011 03:13 PM, Christian Legnitto wrote:
> FYI we can't do this on the 1.9.2 branch....we still support PPC and 10.4 there.

My original plan was to this on m-c and current development branches. As
we drop support for the old branches, the support for the 10.5 sdk would
go with it.

How much infrastructure do we normally keep around for the old branches?
I am sure we don't have ppc machines as an option on try for example.

> Thanks,
> Christian
>

Cheers,
Rafael

[Christian Legnitto]

Not much, and it is generally a wasteland:

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=GeriatricMachines

[Armen Zambrano G.]

This is just a heads up that we would like to switch doing the 10.5 debug builds in the 10.6 minis for m-c and development branches. Older branches will remained unchanged.

The work is being done on bug 674647.

cheers,
Armen

[Armen Zambrano Gasparnian]

Somehow posting through Google groups is messing me up.

This is what we want to do and wanted to make it show in all 3 mailing
lists.