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by liscio 5646 days ago
I think there's not much benefit of staying on Leopard if you run an Intel Mac these days. The upgrade cost is pretty cheap, and the benefits do developers are quite heavenly.

I've been keeping Leopard support in TapeDeck because it's been pretty easy to do so, but with the work I'm doing on 1.4 right now, I've been tempted to hit that kill switch...(But I won't.)
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e1ven 5646 days ago
I'm curious- If you're distributing through the AppStore only, and the App Store doesn't support 1.5, why maintain the code?
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liscio 5646 days ago
You mean 10.5, right?

I've got a fairly large install base, and I'd like to keep them happy if at all possible. In the future, when I have to get them to buy a v2 release on the App Store, then ideally I've made a good impression on my customers and they'll happily buy a license.

It's also not that big a deal to do. As long as the developer tools continue to let me target 10.5 from 10.6, I'll be OK.

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e1ven 5646 days ago
Yes, I meant 10.5, sorry.

I hadn't thought about upgrades for existing customers, that makes quite a bit of sense. I was only considering that all New customers were 10.6+, so targeting 10.5 didn't make much sense.

Thanks for clearing that up!

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