<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Well, I finally did it.<br><br></div>Actually, it's currently hard to support SDK 10.4u, because it is incompatible with gcc-4.2,<br></div>so I decided to begin with SDK 10.5. Meanwhile, 10.5 also supports CoreText at enough level.<br>
<br>Perfectly working LO:<br><a href="http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.alpha0_20130831_MacOS_PPC.dmg">http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.alpha0_20130831_MacOS_PPC.dmg</a><br>
<br>About Box ;)<br><a href="http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/lo_4.2_git-about_box-screenshot.png">http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/lo_4.2_git-about_box-screenshot.png</a><br><br></div>
$ git branch<br>* tenfour<br><div>$ git shortlog -s -n --author="dougmencken"<br>    43  dougmencken<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nthiebaud@gmail.com" target="_blank">nthiebaud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Douglas Mencken <<a href="mailto:dougmencken@gmail.com">dougmencken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>

</div><div class="im">> Hello.<br>
><br>
> As I found, LibreOffice community suddenly ditched support for Mac OS X @<br>
> PowerPC since version 4.1.0.<br>
<br>
</div>On top of what cloph already explained, I would add that this was not 'sudden'<br>
The release note of 4.0 already warned that 10.4/10/5 SDK and hence<br>
PPC where 'deprecated'<br>
which means.. will be dropped soon, likely at the next version.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Feature_removal_.2F_deprecation" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Feature_removal_.2F_deprecation</a><br>
"Deprecated Mac / PPC as a platform, raising our base-line to 10.6."<br>
<br>
it was added in the release note of 4.0 at that point:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=ReleaseNotes/4.0&oldid=59392" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=ReleaseNotes/4.0&oldid=59392</a><br>
<br>
that is 11th of December 2012... more than 8 months before 4.1<br>
release... hardly 'sudden'<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Specifically, it has been done with the<br>
> following two commits by plain removal of code:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7aa6f1b01481c1d0f1a12f56ad197c797056c37b" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7aa6f1b01481c1d0f1a12f56ad197c797056c37b</a><br>

><br>
> <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d8842c2221cb5e6ea958381f9dcd76d9bb9bbafc" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d8842c2221cb5e6ea958381f9dcd76d9bb9bbafc</a><br>

<br>
</div>Actually that was already effectively broken before that, due to the<br>
introduction of OS feature/api that were not backward compatible with<br>
10.4/10.5.<br>
The commit you indicate are just the one that makes it clear and<br>
official.. but the tree before these commit where already not<br>
buildable on ppc.<br>
<br>
<br>
But as Cloph said: if you have the hardware and the time to dedicate<br>
to the task... your welcome to maintain backward compat with 10.4...<br>
we will even gladly take the patches, as long as it does not break, or<br>
put undue requirements to,  the other platforms supported.<br>
<br>
<br>
PS: if it has not been for cloph perseverance and dedication, the PPC<br>
platform would have been drop way earlier... prolly as soon as the 3.4<br>
release. Bear in mind Apple timeline<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors</a><br>

<br>
Apple has not sold a PPC hardware in 7 years.<br>
Apple dropped PPC support from their SDK 4 years ago.<br>
Apple formally dropped support for any PPC software 2 years ago.<br>
<br>
as the saying goes: you can't be more royalist than the king. (<br>
<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%AAtre_plus_royaliste_que_le_roi" target="_blank">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%AAtre_plus_royaliste_que_le_roi</a> )<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Norbert<br>
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