compatibility with early OSX

[davelist at mac.com]

And one other minor correction to Tommy's comment: 10.5 Leopard runs on some PPC machines (officially G4s with 800 MHz or faster processors I think). 10.6 Snow Leopard is the first Intel only version of the OS, although if it's a PPC machine that is old enough that it has 10.2 on it, it probably can't run 10.5 Leopard or 10.4 Tiger and is likely stuck at 10.2 or 10.3 as Mike points out.

Dave

On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:30 PM, M Prindle wrote:

> 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.)