[vlc-devel] [RFC] Raise minimum required macOS version

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Sure, but why?
What do you need in 10.11/.12 that would make your life easier as a developer? Please explain to other developers.

We've always dropped when we needed a new API, and not because we wanted...

jb

On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, at 16:09, Marvin Scholz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> given that when we announced VLC 4.x we were expecting it to be released sooner, and it being in development for quite a while now, the planned minimum macOS version we aimed to support, macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) which was released in October 2014 is now already nearly 8 years old.
> 
> Personally I think that the maintenance burden for such an old OS for a not even released version of VLC is too much. We should at least require macOS 10.11, which works on nearly all 2012+ Macs IIRC or even a more recent macOS version like 10.12.
> 
> After all people who really need support for ancient macOS have the option to just use VLC 3 for the time being…
> 
> Whats everyones opinion on this?
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