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Dropping Tiger support

A bug report from a prospective customer about one of my products crashing on Mac OS X 10.4 has led me to this discovery: during the last round of updates, I added a feature (calling a specific command-line program) that isn't supported on Tiger, and is causing the crash. This presents a dilemma: do I update the programs to fix the bug so they continue to run on Tiger/10.4, or do I simply leave it alone and not support Tiger anymore?

With the release of Mac OS X 10.6, a.k.a Snow Leopard, likely coming in the next few months, my solution is to drop Tiger support altogether. This decision is driven by the fact that Leopard (10.5) will soon become the "older" supported version of Mac OS X (Apple typically provides security updates and patches, but no new development, for the immediately preceding version of the operating system). It's also driven by the fact that the minimum supported platform for Tk-Cocoa is 10.5, which is becoming the basis for all my development, and 10.4 support will be going away in any event.

Thus, PortAuthority, Phynchronicity, and PacketStream are no longer supported on Tiger, effective immediately. The next versions of my other products will also not run on Tiger.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause to users of my existing products; feel free me to contact me by e-mail if you have concerns.

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