Deprecating Mac OS X 10.5

[Robert Sesek]

Hi folks,

We're starting the process of deprecating Mac OS X 10.5 in M22, making 10.6 the minimum system version on which Chrome will run. Starting in M20 we will notify users, and M21 will be the last stable version to receive updates. In M22 the build SDK will be changed to 10.6. This should not affect developers, as the chrome target hasn't been able to build/link on 10.5 for over a year.

Let me know if you have any questions.

rsesek / @chromium.org

[Gabriel Charette]

Does that mean Chrome will no longer work on MAC OS X 10.5?!?! 10.5 is newer (some Macs shipped with it less than 3 years ago) than XP which we still support.

Or are we simply building with 10.6 SDK which is (?) backward compatible with 10.5 SDK?

Thanks for clarifying, seems to me like it's too early to deprecate Mac OS X 10.5,

Gab

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[Mark Mentovai]

Gabriel Charette wrote:

Does that mean Chrome will no longer work on MAC OS X 10.5?!?!

Yes.

[Gregg Tavares (勤)]

So this is probably a stupid question but we just stop auto upgrading people on 10.5? right? Chrome doesn't suddenly update itself to a version that doesn't run anymore right?

Also, any plans to keep around an old version for 10.5 users? Maybe the installer can warn them they're getting an old version?

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[Robert Sesek]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Gregg Tavares (勤) <gm...@google.com> wrote:

So this is probably a stupid question but we just stop auto upgrading people on 10.5? right? Chrome doesn't suddenly update itself to a version that doesn't run anymore right?

Correct. M21 will continue to run without issue, and we just won't autoupdate users to M22 if they're on 10.5. 

 

Also, any plans to keep around an old version for 10.5 users? Maybe the installer can warn them they're getting an old version?

This I'm not sure about.

rsesek / @chromium.org 

[Ojan Vafai]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Robert Sesek <rse...@chromium.org> wrote:

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Gregg Tavares (勤) <gm...@google.com> wrote:

So this is probably a stupid question but we just stop auto upgrading people on 10.5? right? Chrome doesn't suddenly update itself to a version that doesn't run anymore right?

Correct. M21 will continue to run without issue, and we just won't autoupdate users to M22 if they're on 10.5. 

FWIW, when we did this on Linux, we infobarred warning that the browser was no longer being updated. Given that having an out of date browser is having an insecure browser, we thought it was worth putting it in the user's face. So, if we were to do this on 10.5, M21 would infobar on 10.5.

Ojan

[Mark Mentovai]

This is already part of the plan. We’ll notify via New Tab Page in Chrome 20, and infobar in Chrome 21. 10.5 users won’t get the update to Chrome 22. Chrome 22 won’t launch on 10.5 at all, but the OS will show a dialog saying that the system doesn’t meet the application’s minimum requirements.

[commenter]

On a side note please direct your 10.5 knowledge to the chromium-leopard project.

[PhistucK]

A link would have been helpful.

☆PhistucK

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[commenter]

As requested: http://code.google.com/p/chromium-leopard/

On May 20, 4:56 am, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A link would have been helpful.
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> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:24 AM, commenter <spm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On a side note please direct your 10.5 knowledge to the chromium-leopard
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> > On Monday, April 30, 2012 4:17:29 PM UTC-7, Robert Sesek wrote:
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> >> Hi folks,
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> >> We're starting the process of deprecating Mac OS X 10.5 in M22, making
> >> 10.6 the minimum system version on which Chrome will run. Starting in M20
> >> we will notify users, and M21 will be the last stable version to receive
> >> updates. In M22 the build SDK will be changed to 10.6. This should not
> >> affect developers, as the chrome target hasn't been able to build/link on
> >> 10.5 for over a year.
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> >> Let me know if you have any questions.
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> >> rsesek / @chromium.org
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