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yuanzhoucq / Tab-Space

A Safari extension born for improving your web browsing productivity.
https://mytab.space
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Dropped compatibility with 10.14 Mojave? #16

Closed gingerbeardman closed 4 years ago

gingerbeardman commented 4 years ago

I see latest update says this now needs 10.15 Catalina?

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I'm still on 10.14 Mojave, so I'm interested in whether you can lower the minimum criteria? Otherwise, why does this now need 10.15?

Thanks

yuanzhoucq commented 4 years ago

It was a hard decision.

I am working for the automatic saving feature, which would generate many sessions in the background. So I now onboard Core Data as the database. And from macOS 10.15 it has the out-of-box iCloudKit support.

Besides, I am writing a native management interface as well using SwiftUI. Thus, sooner or later macOS would be a must for this project : )

gingerbeardman commented 4 years ago

Deeply disappointing.

Interestingly, you make no mention of consideration for your users in this decision.

What is the split of macOS versions in use according to your iTunes/App Store Analytics?

yuanzhoucq commented 4 years ago

About 80% of Tab Space users are on macOS 10.15.

But why you would think I did not consider my users? 😂 Current users won't lose anything if they do not upgrade. They can keep using all the existing functions forever.

The only purpose of making this SDK upgrading is to develop some exciting new features.

yuanzhoucq commented 4 years ago

I'm still on 10.14 Mojave, so I'm interested in whether you can lower the minimum criteria? Otherwise, why does this now need 10.15?

More specific, it is NSPersistentCloudKitContainer which depends on macOS 10.15 now. I am sorry I didn't find a simple way to work around this.

gingerbeardman commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the stats!

You did not mention users in your decision to move to 10.15, which is why I assumed you did not consider them primarily.

I'll remain on the older version whilst I get all my tabs out back into being managed by Safari itself.

Best of luck with the app in the future.

yuanzhoucq commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the stats!

You did not mention users in your decision to move to 10.15, which is why I assumed you did not consider them primarily.

I'll remain on the older version whilst I get all my tabs out back into being managed by Safari itself.

Best of luck with the app in the future.

After doing some research, I found it possible to bring back the compatibility with 10.14 or even 10.13. I will try to implement this idea in next version : )

gingerbeardman commented 4 years ago

Thank you. It's very much appreciated.

gingerbeardman commented 4 years ago

Thanks for re-adding support for 10.14 and 10.13!

I got the update this week.