compatibility with early OSX

[M Prindle]

It may also depend on what mac hardware he's running.  If it's an
older beige G3 based mac then 10.2 is the latest officially supported
version that the machine will run.  I was able to hack my old beige G3
to run 10.3, but I gave up on trying to get 10.4 to run on it.

Mike

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Tommy Trussell
<tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:33 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>
> 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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