[WASTE-list] Re: OSX Minimum Version
Richard L. Aurbach
rick at aurbach.com
Mon Feb 6 01:02:10 EST 2006
A large part of my market is K-12 education, and we still have a
significant customer base running OS9 (typically on iMacs that could
run OSX if anyone were interested in buying extra memory for them,
which no one is...). (The typical scenario is a school district
running OSX in the high school, but using older machines and OS9 in
elementary buildings.) So I produce three versions of my products -
OS9, OSX, and Windows. (The OS9 and OSX products are currently nearly
identical -- there are only a few places where the OSX version uses
APIs which are not available on OS9-Carbon-CFM.)
So, I'm still using WASTE 2.1.
Over the next year or so, I will be moving the OSX version to MachO
to support MacTel customers, and I plan to drop OS9 support some time
after that. So obviously, I won't be working with WASTE 3 for a
while. BUT, I do know that I still have a substantial number of OSX
customers who are still running Jaguar, so I think that WASTE 3 on
Jaguar is still important. I realize that lots of shops take a
different approach, but I find that I have a lot of customers who are
slow to upgrade their operating systems.
I realize that supporting Jaguar is expensive -- for Marco and for
us. But I hope that Marco will choose to support Jaguar in WASTE 3
for at least another year or two, giving us more time to work with
our budget-constrained customers. In my markets, change --
particularly change that involves substantial financial outlays --
comes very slowly indeed.
Cheers,
Rick Aurbach, Ph.D.
President and Chief Engineer
Aurbach & Associates, Inc.
8233 Tulane Avenue, Suite B
St. Louis, MO 63132
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On Feb 5, 2006, at 7:12 PM, John C. Daub wrote:
> FWIW, the products I'm working on are going 10.4 (and above) in the
> next
> versions (due later this year). We may support back to 10.3.9, but
> that'd be
> as far back as we'd go.
>
> I don't have need for support prior to 10.3.9, and really don't
> need nor
> want the support, testing, maintenance, that goes along with trying to
> support OS versions that our users aren't using.
>
> But WASTE is different... it's a library used far and wide. I guess
> it's a
> matter of how much cost is involved in supporting older OS
> versions, and if
> the benefit is worth the cost.
>
> --
> John C. Daub }:-)>=
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> Maybe it's not to late to learn how to love and forget how to
> hate." - Ozzy
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