[bind10-dev] Supporting OS X, was Re: BIND 10 tomek-mavericks, created

[Shane Kerr]

Jeremy,

[ CC'ing Vicky because she is our newish product manager, and will
  probably make any final decisions in what OS we support. Vicky, this
  bind10-dev at lists.isc.org is the public BIND 10 discussion list. ]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 18:58:29 -0600 (CST)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <jreed at isc.org> wrote:

> >     [tomek-maverics] Compilation fixes for Mac OS 10.9
> 
> Also see
> http://bind10.isc.org/ticket/3213
> http://git.bind10.isc.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/bind10/log/?h=jinmei-mavericks

We have supported OS X not because we expect many people to use it in
production, but rather because a lot of DNS hackers run it on their
laptops and so we want to make sure that they can build & test BIND 10
in a comfortable environment. I think this is a good policy, and hope
to continue it.

If we do want to support OS X, I'm thinking we probably need an OS X
10.9 installation somewhere in our build farm to make sure we don't
have regressions after this initial compilation fix work.

Sadly Apple doesn't seem to publish end-of-life information for their
operating systems, so it is hard to tell how many versions of OS X to
support. :( The best information source I found was the Wikipedia
article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Versions

Since OS X 10.7 had its last update over a year ago, maybe we can
consider it end-of-life? Probably this means that ISC would need to
support 2 or 3 versions of OS X (so perhaps 10.7 "Lion", 10.8 "Mountain
Lion", and 10.9 "Mavericks" right now). Probably this means buying
a new Mac Mini and upgrading the one we have in the lab now. If we do
that, we can use these boxes for BIND 9 and ISC DHCP testing as well.

Cheers,

--
Shane