[Qgis-user] Installerpackage QGIS 2.2 OSX 10.6?

[William Kyngesburye]

Building on OS X isn't hard, just tedious.  The build instructions are very detailed, so anyone should be able to roll their own if needed on an older system.  The last Qt 4.8.5 installer works on 10.6, and dependencies should be buildable on 10.6 for a long time.

There are also OS X package managers to simplify the process.  I think MacPorts is still alive, and Homebrew has become very popular. (Though they can cause trouble if you also compile software from scratch outside their environments.)

Note: if you read my blog about it, in my interpretation of the hardware maintenance it's the hardware that Apple supports, and it's the latest version of the system software that the hardware supports that is maintained, not the original version of the system.  So 10.6 is dead now.  Which has been verified in the latest security update that was for 10.7+.

I've mentioned my policy in the past and have been following it for years.  It's just hitting a little hard this time because of the long life Snow Leopard had.

On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> 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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