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What is up with every app requiring 10.8 and above? It's fine for others but very unsettling for developer tools. I still know devs on 10.6.x! This is even mor
by arihant 11y ago
What is up with every app requiring 10.8 and above? It's fine for others but very unsettling for developer tools. I still know devs on 10.6.x!
This is even more weird when you consider that laptops that came with 10.7 went out of AppleCare a few months ago.
- mhurron 11y ago> What is up with every app requiring 10.8 and above Even Apple has stopped supporting 10.8 and below.
- chrisseaton 11y agoWhy can't everyone just upgrade?
- arihant 11y agoIt can be very messy to upgrade for a sizeable chunk of developers. Linked libraries, lost compatibility. If the system gets unstable you lose years of installed dependencies. I mean some of the unix apps take literally hours to install, and a faulty upgrade can lose tens of them. You forget how you resolved conflicts, gotten stuff to work.
- chrisseaton 11y agoWhy would you figure out how to install something, and then not automate it so you didn't have to do it again? I think if you can't recreate your system in an afternoon with just a backup of your user files, then you're already on borrowed time.
- city41 11y agoThis app is built on Electron, which requires 10.8.