Re: 2.15.27 won't open on Mac 10.4 PPC

[Hans Aberg]

On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:41, Carl Sorensen wrote:

>>>> This link says CFFileDescriptor requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
>>>> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2050/_index.html
>> 
>>> So that means I'm stuck at 2.15.26? (Or 2.14.x?) Or is this something
>>> that was
>>> overlooked in compiling the PPC version?
>> 
>> Or upgrade the OS.
> 
> Or we may need to have two different versions -- one for OSX 10.5 and
> later, and one for 10.4.  It may be possible to continue to support 10.4
> in GUB with a separate target.
> 
> But 10.4 is a pretty old OS (released 7 years ago, replaced 4.5 years
> ago).  There are enough changes in how things are handled in OSX that I
> doubt it will be infinitely sustainable.

One can install 10.5 on some older unsupported hardware:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Leopard#Usage_on_unsupported_hardware

Hans