Re: Cairo support for Mac OS 10.4
G 3 <[email protected]>
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On Jan 13, 2017, at 4:14 AM, Andrea Canciani wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:05 AM, G 3 <[email protected]> > wrote: > There are still plenty of Mac OS 10.4 users out there who would > like to continue using the latest version of cairo. Please bring > back support for Mac OS 10.4. > > Last time this was discussed, there seemed to be little interest in > keeping 10.4 working, especially because over time it has become > increasingly harder to find a test environment. Do you happen to > have access to a CI solution that offers 10.4? > Another option would be to have one of those 10.4 users involved in > the Quartz backend maintainance. > > For some previous discussion, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ > show_bug.cgi?id=84324 > > In theory this commit should make cairo work on 10.4 again https:// > cgit.freedesktop.org/~ranma42/cairo/commit/?h=wip/ > restore-10.4&id=c2d111ecbf729fe1ecdfcc260f2c51cd3e96fe37 > > Conversely, https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ranma42/cairo/commit/? > h=wip/remove-10.4&id=66b5419704aa1971c77de764fd94b2f7d2a05b76 would > be a much-belated cleanup that could occur if support for 10.4 was > explicitly and intentionally dropped. > > Andrea Thank you very much for this information. Given the very few differences between the Mac OS 10.4 code and the newer code, why not support both? I few #ifdef's would make this possible. -- cairo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo