Re: MacOS 10.6

Solomon Peachy <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Feb 2021 19:29:27 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.printing.gimp-print.devel
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On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:15:51PM -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>  Other than a couple of Mac mini systems that lived on through August 
> 2007, these were all short-lived laptops that were discontinued at 
> various times in 2006, so close to 15 years ago.

10.6 was also the final release to support running PPC binaries (via 
Rosetta) so there might be folks with newer hardware that are legitimately
stuck on it. 

I like the sound of Matt's proposal of two installer packages, one for 
10.6->10.12, and another for 10.13+, but that obviously carries ongoing 
support burdens for us, especially for platforms that Apple ceased 
supporting over a decade ago.

> I would naively expect that there are more people running 10.12 (say) 
> for whom signed packages are a plus than people still running 
> specifically 10.6, but maybe I'm wrong.

I would agree with that, and there are some numbers to back this up:

 https://gs.statcounter.com/macos-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201805-202101

Those numbers show that 10.13 combined is under 9% and <10.10 is under 
2%.  Granted, this is taken via web analytics, so it might be skewed a tad.

 https://www.statista.com/statistics/944559/worldwide-macos-version-market-share/

This shows 10.6 as having a mere 0.14% of the install base now:

 https://www.statista.com/statistics/944559/worldwide-macos-version-market-share/

And this data shows as of mid-2016, <10.8 was under 6%.  It's surely fallen since.

 https://update.omnigroup.com/

But I digress.. if we can support 10.7+ on a single installer, I think 
it's time to stick a fork in 10.6.

 - Solomon
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