Drop OS X 10.5 and 10.6 support in 6.0 · Issue #5731 · nodejs/node (original) (raw)

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Similar to #3804 proposing dropping support for Windows XP and Vista in 6.0. This would be a good time to also consider dropping support for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.

• OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has been unsupported as of June 23, 2011 and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has been unsupported as of Feb 2014.
• I couldn't find any existing documentation on the minimum version of OS X we support for Node – are these even supported today?
• Chrome dropped support for OS X 10.5 a long time ago and in November 2015 announced end of support for 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.
• I anticipate that V8 will start depending on C++11 library features going forward. On a Mac, this requires linking against libc++ which is only available from 10.7 onwards.
• Do we have some status (e.g. from npm) if there is a non-trivial number of users affected by this? Unlike Windows, I don't expect a significant number of users stuck on old versions. If the usage numbers are low for 10.7 and 10.8, we should consider if we should still continue supporting those in 6.0.

/cc @nodejs/ctc

EDIT: typos.