[tex-live] Dropping support for Mac OS X 10.5 (i386, ppc)?

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Thu Mar 22 13:55:51 CET 2018


On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:24:48AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I did manage to compile i386-darwin binaries for 10.5 yesterday after
> applying two minor patches (one submitted upstream, one still on
> hold). Powerpc has some more hiccups (it's either compiler bug or a
> bug in ICU build system which causes us headaches all the time anyway)
> that should be possible to mitigate, but ... it might indeed be time
> to finally say goodbye?

  Yes, it might be :-)

> 10.6 with x86_64 will still be (conditionally) supported, 10.7 and
> onwards will have full support for installation from command-line at
> least.

  I think that’s already very good.

	Best,

		Arthur


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