Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix for crashes and non-responsive UI on macOS Mojave

[Programmingkid]

> On 13 November 2018 at 12:12, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Nov 11, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Berkus Decker wrote:
>>> These changes are ought to work on OSX 10.6, although I don?t have a 
>>> machine handy to test it.
>> 
>> I have Mac OS 10.6 available for testing.
> 
> This is perhaps a good point to ask the question: is retaining
> support for 10.6 still worth the effort ? It was released 9
> years ago and has been unsupported by Apple for nearly 5 years.
> 
> qemu-doc.texi's "Supported build platforms" section says:
> # The project supports building with the two most recent versions
> # of macOS, with the current homebrew package set available.
> 
> which would be High Sierra (10.13) and Mojave (10.14) only. If you
> widened that to "all versions still supported by Apple" it would add
> Sierra (10.13) to the list.
> 
> Given how few upstream developers we have who care about OSX,
> I think it is not very useful to spend that effort on trying
> to retain support for ancient versions of it.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

Mac OS 10.6 is a very good operating system. I much rather we simplify the 
patch rather than drop support for this excellent operation system just because 
it is a few years old. I suspect rewriting the the patch to use 
performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: would be a simpler and 
better patch.

I have tried the patch out already on Mac OS 10.12 and it did not work. The 
firmware never runs and the Machine menu does not populate. I do not believe 
this patch is worth dropping the support of many versions of Mac OS X.