Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 3042] New: The Mac OS X downloads should more strongly sta
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:14:39 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3042

           Summary: The Mac OS X downloads should more strongly state that
                    they're Leopard-only
           Product: Web sites
           Version: N/A
          Platform: Macintosh
               URL: http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Low
         Component: Main site - www.wireshark.org
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx


Build Information:
N/A
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The page in question says

    Macintosh OS X Intel Package

It should probably say

    Macintosh OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Intel Package

or something such as that.

If I remember correctly, there was a very big jump in the libfontconfig version
between Tiger and Leopard, due to upgrading to a later version of libfontconfig
(the X developers changed fontconfig so much that, as I remember, there were
versions of GTK+ that wouldn't build on Tiger but would build on Leopard, and
possibly *vice versa*, i.e. the folks responsible for libfontconfig broke API
compatibility!)

That means that, unless I'm missing something, we can't build a binary that'll
work on Tiger and Leopard, and we're building one that works on Leopard, so it
won't work on Tiger.

The main page says

    Installers for Windows, Mac OS X Intel 10.5, and source code is now
available.

which does mention the 10.5 requirement (although it should probably say

    Installers for Windows and Mac OS X 10.5 for Intel, and source code, are
now available.

or something such as that).  The download page should also mention the 10.5
requirement.

(I know of at least one crash on Tiger due to that problem; hopefully this will
prevent further such crashes.)


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