Features vs macOS versions

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Features vs macOS versions #260

Open schriftgestalt opened 3 years ago

schriftgestalt commented 3 years ago

If there is a feature that works very well but is only available on (e.g. 10.12) is it OK to add a reasonable fallback.

Why I ask: There is a setting in System Preferences to choose the temperature units.

I’m trying to fix the UI of the settings app and removing something is easier than fixing it.

That leads to the question. What is the lowest macOS version you try to support?

yujitach commented 2 years ago

That's a difficult decision. In the last week I had the following number of downloads (out of 27622)

10.11: 375; 10.12: 191; 10.13: 1357; 10.14: 1716; 10.15: 4807; 11: 16375; 12: 2799; 13: 2

If you would drop 10.11, also dropping 10.12 would also make sense.

yujitach commented 2 years ago

This talk at WWDC 2017 says we should use NSGridView to organize the pref pane, which is available on 10.12+. So targeting 10.12 and later is reasonable from this point of view.

By the way the following graph of the change of the share of the OS versions might be of interest:

schriftgestalt commented 2 years ago

The Grid view is an interesting idea. I just redid the CPU tab with manual auto layout. And the new structure might work in a grid view, too. But doing it by hand is not so bad.

With my app, I still support 10.11 (and have actually some users using such old systems).

schriftgestalt commented 2 years ago

So for now we support 10.11? I can live with that. I just like to know.

yujitach commented 2 years ago

Let's do so. I'll be slowly merging your contributions. It'll take time.