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OpenOffice mac

Please could you make new releases available on mac osx 10.6?

10.6 is 5 years old and OpenOffice is not the only software running on macs.

Thanks,

der ron

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Re: OpenOffice mac

Posted by stephen perry <ci...@gmx.com>.
Seconded.  And for Leopard ( 10.5) if that is not too much trouble.

Many thanks!


On 8 May 2014, at 10:33, der_ron wrote:

Please could you make new releases available on mac osx 10.6?

10.6 is 5 years old and OpenOffice is not the only software running on  
macs.

Thanks,

der ron

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Re: OpenOffice mac

Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
Peter Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>> It is a purely technical choice we had to make to take advantage of 64-bit
>> Mac OS X applications and avoid the dependency on now deprecated build
>> tools. It was discussed at length on the dev list, since it was clear that
>> we needed to drop support for older Mac OS X releases in order to better
>> support the newer ones.
> What exactly is the deal here?

See the dev list archives. For example, this discussion from late 2013: 
http://markmail.org/message/qfqarbaoesonibur should give enough information.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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Re: OpenOffice mac

Posted by Peter Johansson <ro...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> wrote:

> It is a purely technical choice we had to make to take advantage of 64-bit
> Mac OS X applications and avoid the dependency on now deprecated build
> tools. It was discussed at length on the dev list, since it was clear that
> we needed to drop support for older Mac OS X releases in order to better
> support the newer ones.

What exactly is the deal here?  I run Snow Leopard, and just about
every application I run is 64-bit.

-p.

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Re: OpenOffice mac

Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
On 12/05/2014 mt wrote:
> On 8/5/14 at 7:33 PM, der_ron@rocketmail.com (der_ron) wrote:
>> Please could you make new releases available on mac osx 10.6?
>> 10.6 is 5 years old ...
> Is there somewhere an explanation of what "older" Mac users are missing
> out on?

It is a purely technical choice we had to make to take advantage of 
64-bit Mac OS X applications and avoid the dependency on now deprecated 
build tools. It was discussed at length on the dev list, since it was 
clear that we needed to drop support for older Mac OS X releases in 
order to better support the newer ones.

See https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122301 and the Release 
Notes 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes 
for more information.

It is unlikely that support for Mac OS X 10.6 or earlier is restored in 
future; to be precise, it is considered to be a huge task and not worth 
the effort; but if volunteers show up who can either "port" OpenOffice 
4.1.0 to older Mac OS X systems or provide extended support/bugfixes 
port for version 4.0.1 on older Mac OS X systems, they will be welcome.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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Re: OpenOffice mac

Posted by mt <mt...@lockedbags.org>.
On 8/5/14 at 7:33 PM, der_ron@rocketmail.com (der_ron) wrote:

>Please could you make new releases available on mac osx 10.6?
>
>10.6 is 5 years old ...

Same here. I would like to be able to use new OpenOffice 
releases on my 10.6 Mac OS X system without having to upgrade 
-which in my case would require buying a new computer.

Is there somewhere an explanation of what "older" Mac users are 
missing out on?

Thanks.

marina


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