[Info-vax] Web Browsers on OpenVMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 1/2/2013 1:46 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
>
>

I somehow think that most software vendors will limit support for back
level code!  I think you can get it but you will pay more for it.