[Info-vax] Web Browsers on OpenVMS

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-02 18:16:50 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article <kc1qtn$h2t$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> On 2013-01-02 14:09:49 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
>> 
>>> In article <kb4qmg$kk$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
>>> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> Xcode is the IDE and is free from the Mac App Store, and the C,
>>>> Objective C, C++ and Objective C++ compiller (the primary development
>>>> languages) is based on clang/llvm.
>>> 
>>> Xcode is free for the current OS.  it was not free, even for recently
>>> older versions.
>> 
>> Xcode has been free for at least six or seven years and quite probably
>> longer than that, and an Xcode kit was present on the OS X distro disks.
>> 
> 
>    I'm running 10.6.8 and when I try to download XCode, it's not free.

Ah, OK.  I understand.  You didn't download Xcode back then, and you 
need it now, and you can't (for whatever reason) upgrade.

There should be a copy of Xcode on your 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD distro 
set.   It'll be pretty crufty, as Xcode has been moving rather quickly 
in recent years.

>    We have info from Apple that it is free for 10.7.

The current Xcode 4.5.2 version that is available in the App Store is 
free, and minimally requires OS X 10.7.4.  You'd need to upgrade to 
10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion to use that.

Xcode 4.2 (AFAIK, 4.2 is the last version that's compatible with 10.6) 
isn't free, though developers can still get at a copy.   If you didn't 
save off a copy, and if you don't have the DVD around, then there's no 
free version available from Apple.  (Though you can still get a 10.6 
DVD for around US$30 IIRC, and the upgrades to 10.7 and 10.8 are cheap 
— if your hardware supports those newer versions.)

Apple, per longstanding practice, as largely ended support and updates 
for 10.6.  They typically support the current and previous versions 
only, for most things.


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