Some baseline thoughts

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 05/19/2017 01:51 PM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> I don't mind bumping to 10.9. the box that do the realease is already
> at 10.9 anyway

Note 
<https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2017-April/077548.html> 
"Minutes of ESC call ..."

> * Mac OS X 10.8 support (Michael S)
>     + the only platform that does not have thread safe statics
>       cf. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93119
>     + de-facto unsupported by Apple since August 2015
>       https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201222
>     + Mozilla dropped support September 2016
>       https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-and-Update/Firefox-support-has-ended-for-Mac-OS-X-10-6-10-7-and-10-8/ta-p/32725
>     + Chrome dropped support April 2016
>       https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html
>     + deprecation warning in 5.4, and drop for 5.5? (Thorsten)
>         + around 2nd half of May
>         + OK to wait the month (Michael S.)
>         + shouldn’t block OS update (Cloph)
>         + support to wait 1 month (Kendy)
>     + needs some work on Android too (Miklos)
>         + toolchain update etc.
>         + but shouldn’t affect the runtime (Miklos)
>     + release note that etc. (Thorsten)

and resulting release notes update at 
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=ReleaseNotes%2F5.4&type=revision&diff=146397&oldid=146394>.