Re: [gtk-osx-users] Support of Older OS X Versions

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Miroslav Rajcic wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> do you ask this question for GTK 3.x only?
>
> I am very much interested in GTK 2.x supporting older versions of 
> OS X too.

Me too, but I think this ought to be a moot point, since I don't 
suppose there will ever be a GTK 2 release that raises the GLib 
dependency beyond the current level of 2.28.0, and it's new GLib 
that's the issue here. (Personally, I favor GLib 2.36.4 for my 
GTK2/OS X build, as the most recent version that doesn't raise extra 
dependencies that I don't care to handle.)

> I asked the users of my own program the same question, and I got a 
> number of users telling me that they still use OS X 10.6.x.

As Wikipedia notes, "From 2012 onwards, OS X shifted to an annual 
release schedule similar to that of iOS ... Some journalists and 
third-party software developers have suggested that this decision, 
while allowing more rapid feature release, meant less opportunity to 
focus on stability, with no version of OS X recommendable for users 
requiring stability and performance above new features."

I've kept OS X up-to-date on my Macbook so I can test my GTK 
application for breakage, but if I were just going for stability and 
usability I'd probably still be running 10.6.8.

Allin Cottrell