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Current Mac OS X OpenOffice.org versions : a quick inventory

Mac OS X is generic name, and we do provide two versions ( Aqua and X11) , for two architectures, and for several Mac OS X versions !


Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard, sched. Oct2007) :

Aqua version : works on INTEL (beta version, for ADC devs only), untested on PowerPC
X11 version : works on INTEL (beta version, for ADC devs only), untested on PowerPC

Mac OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger ) :

Aqua version : works on INTEL, works on PowerPC
X11 version : works on INTEL, works on PowerPC

Mac OS X 10.3 (aka Panther, not offocially supported anymore by Mac OS X port ) :

Aqua version : not buildable
X11 version : works on PowerPC only, until 2.2.1 ( we cannot promise for more recent versions of OpenOffice.org )

Don't forget to multiply by all the locales, and you have the result
=> this is too much


The current distribution of users is : 66% using INTEL , and 33% only uses PowerPC

Source : torrent for Aqua version (obsolete)


When Leopard will be out on october, and looking at the Apple hardware sales figures(if they continue the same rythm), we can estimate to 75% the distribution in favour of Intel hardware.

In the 25% remaining and using PowerPC hardware, we can estimate 40% only using Panther, not more.

-> Very probably, less than 10% of Mac users will use Panther and PowerPC hardware by end 2007.


The future for the Mac OS X version :

Current Aqua version will become our major version.

Tiger and Leopard only will be supported, for both PowerPC and Intel archs.

Better ergonomy with e.g. locale installation, Mac Address Book, Copy Paste, Drag and Drop, Mac spellchecker ... etc

Libellés : development

publié par ericb @ mercredi, juillet 25, 2007