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Why Not Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4)?

April 26, 2017mac os x Tiger

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Why Not Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4)?

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VelOCRaptor is currently a pragmatic mix of the Objective-C and Ruby programming languages. Ruby allows us to rapidly interface to the underlying OCR engine, and Objective-C makes the GUI. The Ruby framework we use is pre-installed on Leopard, but not on Tiger. You can install Ruby on Tiger, but it would mean some combination of • Separate Leopard and Tiger versions • An installer for Tiger • A larger download for both platforms • Testing on both Tiger and Leopard before release • Maintaining hardware to test both Tiger and Leopard • Support headaches Finally, as soon as Snow Leopard ships, we’d find ourselves trying to support 3 OS versions. So VelOCRaptor on Tiger (there’s an image) wouldn’t be impossible, but it’s just too much work for too little reward. It would be nice if Apple supported new technologies on their old operating systems, but they don’t, and the upside of that is the relative stability that we enjoy compared to Windows.