Re: should we drop gcc3 support ?

Hi *,

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:44 PM, eric b <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 1 oct. 09 à 12:43, Jens-Heiner Rechtien a écrit :
>>>
>>> Aqua-OOo is not supported on Mac OS X 10.3 - at least I don't know
>>> anyone who ever did an aqua build that would run on 10.3.
>>
>> So dropping gcc-3.3 would only affect X11-MacOSX. Is that one still
>> relevant at all?
>
> In fact, nobody knows really : the X11 version is no longer maintained.

Yes, and I don't know a signle reason why anyone would want to use an
X11 version instead of the aqua version.
So it is in my opinion not relevant at all.

>> Does it still work?
>
> Maybe it's possible to build it using gcc 4.0.1. Not tested since a long
> while :)
>
> My humble opinion is:  I got tiger on several machines. Tiger is the oldest
> maintained version,  and gcc 4.0.1 is the one shipped with.

Fully agree - on mac 4.0.1 is the baseline, gcc 3.x is not needed at all

ciao
Christian