Some baseline thoughts

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> that box use 10.8sdk which come with libxml:
>> #define LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION "2.7.8"
>>
>
> In a current SDK it is 2.9.4. I don't know how it has been updated in SDK
> versions. But seriously, couldn't we bump the baseline to 10.9 by now? That
> would also help the thread-safe statics thing, if I understand correctly.
> Macs that can't be upgraded to 10.9 or beyond are about ten years old now, I
> think.

I don't mind bumping to 10.9. the box that do the realease is already
at 10.9 anyway

according to google there are about 2 to 3% of mac users still on 10.8.
but hey.. if they are content with sticking to 10.8 they can be
content with sticking with lo 5.3

Norbert