[Qgis-user] Installerpackage QGIS 2.2 OSX 10.6?

[Alex Mandel]

It's a tricky problem, somewhat related to number of users
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=Y
10.6 share has been declining 20% over the last year (relative to itself).

At what point do we cut off? I expect at some point not all the
dependencies will even be buildable on the system. The only way I can
see supporting a lot of versions is if it's fairly automated process.
Right now there seems to be quite a bit of work by hand to keep things
all in step. Or do we drop it off once the number of worldwide users is
below a certain limit?

Linux is the same way, Ubuntu 10.04 is about to get dropped out of new
releases(if it isn't already when 14.04 comes out) and it is newer than
OS X 10.6

Of course Mac users have another issue, because of hardware OS X 10.6
might be the highest they can ever go with OS X. Which only leaves one
option (faced by many people with computers), do I buy new hardware or
switch to recent linux and get another 5 years+ out of the machine with
security patches and software upgrades. I guess technically there should
be people with 3 year old machines that came with 10.6, so at least
another 2-4 years of security patches from Apple.

Maybe someone has a spare 10.6 machine and wants to learn from William
how to make the builds on it?

Thanks,
Alex

On 03/07/2014 03:54 PM, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> Maybe it's time to find sponsors for hosted environments to build qgis on
> osx...
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde
> <rdmailings at duif.net>wrote:
> 
>> On 07-03-14 15:16, Joris HINTJENS wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Just upgraded my Imac to OS 10.6
>>>
>>> Any chance to find someday an installerpackage QGIS2.2 for my OS?
>>>
>>> For now, "the computer says noo!"
>>
>> Installers are provided by William. This is what he says about 10.6:
>>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/blog/2014/20140223_snow_leopard_support_ending
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
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