MacOS 10.9 update and support issues

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi All,

I have SeaMonkey 2.53.14 on MacOS 10.9.
While running it updated itself to 2.53.18 and hung. A restart did not
work, of course, since 2.53.18 is compatible only with 10.11

The best would be, of course, to try to make a build with 10.9. I wonder
if ti is too hard, originaly 10.9/10.10/10.11 were the same support of
Firefox.
At least, however, it would be better not to update to a version not
supported version.

Ideas and Opinions?

Riccardo

[Nuno Silva]

On 2024-05-12, 'Riccardo Mottola' via support-...@lists.mozilla.org wrote:

> I have SeaMonkey 2.53.14 on MacOS 10.9.
> While running it updated itself to 2.53.18 and hung. A restart did not
> work, of course, since 2.53.18 is compatible only with 10.11

Just to confirm, you mean the auto-update feature from SeaMonkey itself
installed 2.53.18.2 over 2.53.14? Or was the update provided by
something else external to SeaMonkey? (Some sort of script or package
manager?)

> The best would be, of course, to try to make a build with 10.9. I
> wonder if ti is too hard, originaly 10.9/10.10/10.11 were the same
> support of Firefox.
> At least, however, it would be better not to update to a version not
> supported version.
>
> Ideas and Opinions?

2.53.14 is indeed the last build compatible with MacOS 10.9, and the
current code can't be built for 10.9.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/system-requirements

--
Nuno Silva

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Nuno Silva wrote:
> Just to confirm, you mean the auto-update feature from SeaMonkey itself
> installed 2.53.18.2 over 2.53.14? Or was the update provided by
> something else external to SeaMonkey? (Some sort of script or package
> manager?)

Yes, that is the case. SeaMonkey tries to update itself to a version not
supported by my OS.

> 2.53.14 is indeed the last build compatible with MacOS 10.9, and the
> current code can't be built for 10.9.
>
> https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/system-requirements
>

Do you know what is missing? maybe it can be made compiling... it would
be nice.
I  build SeaMonkey on FreeBSD.. never tried on Mac, but perhaps with
MacPorts it is not difficult.

Riccardo