iTerm Upcoming Versions

[Mark Anderson]

Turns out I'm wrong, it will run 10.10+, but will only build from source on
10.13 due to a Xcode 9.4 requirement.

—Mark
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Mark E. Anderson <emer at emer.net>


On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:53 PM Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 10.13 only would be quite a harsh requirement, so I think limiting iTerm2
> to only that would not be good.
>
> Do you know why exactly they are doing this ? Is it the Metal 2
> requirement, or Xcode or  something else ? Sometimes within MacPorts we can
> support OSes beyond what upstream expects, as we have things like fallback
> compilers etc., whilst upstream assumes you would only use Xcode supplied
> ones. So it really depends on what the limitation actually is.
>
> Chris
>
> On 28 Jul 2018, at 9:10 pm, Mark Anderson <emer at emer.net> wrote:
>
> The upcoming 3.2 version of iTerm2 will require 10.13 or higher to build.
> The upside is Metal 2 rendering is being working on. I'm wondering if we
> want to keep older versions based on older macOSes or just say, hey,
> upstream only supports 10.XX at the latest and so that's what we support.
>
> —Mark
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> Mark E. Anderson <emer at emer.net>
>
>
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