compatibility with early OSX

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:33 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> It's true that Gnucash itself doesn't call anything requiring 10.4, but the quartz libraries in gtk+ do, as do cairo and pango, upon which gtk+ depends. You can get around that by using X11 instead of Quartz. (Gnucash 2.3.x's requirement for 10.5 stems from using WebKit instead of gtkhtml for html rendering; WebKitGtk won't build on 10.4.)
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The original poster would probably find it easiest to upgrade his Mac
OS X 10.2 (which was first released in 2002) to Mac OS X 10.4 (which
is the last version that runs on a PowerPC Macintosh) to get a native
OS X build of GnuCash 2.2.9. However, if he expects to follow GnuCash
upgrades in the future, he would need to install fink (which may not
have the libraries he needs under 10.2 but would be more likely under
10.4) or install linux on his Mac, which may not really appeal to him
unless he is quite adventuresome.

We still actively use my wife's PowerPC PowerBook, but it's already
hard to find new software releases that support it. For example I
believe Mozilla Firefox has announced they're dropping PowerPC builds
for OS X.

(I have assumed the OP uses a PowerPC Macintosh because I believe that
was the only option for OS X 10.2, though I may be wrong.)

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