C++11 on Mountain Lion and lower?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Dec 4 18:16:04 PST 2013


On 2013-12-5 08:14 , Ned Deily wrote:
> In article <529F1C08.4000603 at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>,
>  Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> 
>  wrote:
>> 10.6 is perhaps slightly different in that it is the last release to 
>> support PowerPC applications. Maybe some users have a need to stick with 
>> this because of that (but then, any application that *still* hasn't 
>> provided an intel version now, clearly is dead in the water. Personally, 
>> I would be looking heavily for alternatives at this stage).
> 
> FTR, 10.6 is also the last release to support 32-bit-only Intel Core Solo and 
> Core Duo based Macs.  So there are users with Intel Macs who cannot migrate 
> from Snow Leopard.

And there are machines with 64-bit processors but 32-bit EFI that can't
go past 10.7. Almost every recent release drops support for something.

- Josh


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