[rkward-devel] feedback needed: future OS X releases of RKWard

[Aaron Batty]

Hi all; sorry I've been incommunicado lately. I'm very busy with research
and organizing a conference (Which, thankfully, ended on Monday!).

This is a very, very difficult question for me, as I ramp up to teach my
class with RKWard starting in a few weeks. The overwhelming majority of my
students are on Macs, as a major focus of our department is web
development. I, too, am on the Mac.

But.

I, personally, have refused to upgrade to 10.10, because of the pain the
last few upgrades have been, with no real benefit to any actual, living
human beings (e.g., why would I want to answer my phone on my computer?).

I guess the upshot is this: It probably makes sense to drop pre-10.10
support, because just about every Mac user dutifully runs his/her entire
computer through the chipper-shredder every fall for the newest insult from
Cupertino. This fall, we will see most people install 10.11 and relinquish
their right to root as well. Such is life.

And I guess I will have to upgrade.



On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:22 PM, meik michalke <
Meik.Michalke at uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:

> hi,
>
> until now, we were able to offer RKWard package bundles for OS X >= 10.7.
> this
> OS X release is no longer supported by apple and we have to upgrade our
> build
> environment. in theory, an upgrade to 10.8 would be possible, but in
> practice,
> apple's app store doesn't offer upgrades to 10.8 or 10.9 any longer.
>
> upgrading to 10.10 (yosemite) would be possible, which would also make the
> development easier, since we wouldn't have to care for compatibility with
> several old releases for the time being. but it would also mean that the
> resulting bundles would require the same OS X version (or higher) as a
> minimum
> requirement.
>
> according to this source, the market share of yosemite already reached 62%
> of
> all OS X installations (10.9: 17%; 10.8: 5%):
>
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0&qpsp=198&qpnp=1&qptimeframe=M
>
> we would like to find out if it would mean too much of a drawback for
> RKWard
> if future releases would only be available for OS X >= 10.10, which seems
> like
> our preferred alternative -- what's your opinion on this?
>
>
> viele grüße :: m.eik
>
> --
>   dipl. psych. meik michalke
>   institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
>   abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
>   heinrich-heine-universit"at d-40204 d"usseldorf
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