{Mac] FGU updater does not work with OSX 10.12 [Archive]

Gozer the Gozerian

December 28th, 2019, 17:20

I believe this issue has been reported on another thread, but wanted to give it it's own thread. It seems that the FGU updater does not work with OS X 10.12. I was able to get Fantasy Grounds installed, but I cannot update (running 10.12.6). Since the Mac OS system requirement has been set at 10.12, are there plans to create an updater that also works with 10.12, or are the system requirements going to be raised?

pollux

December 29th, 2019, 06:05

I have no visibility into what SmiteWorks will do with respect to OSX 10.12, but you should know that Apple itself no longer supports OSX 10.12 as of when 10.15 came out. See my post here for details on how Apple doesn't announce the end-of-life dates for OSX, and how 10.11 and 10.12 are out of support even though Apple doesn't tell anyone: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?51930-Schedule-for-OS-X-Beta-Testing&p=468465#post468465

Other software vendors are starting to stop supporting OSX 10.12 as well (as they must, since Apple doesn't):

https://community.box.com/t5/Box-Product-Updates/Box-End-of-Life-EOL-Quarterly-Notice/idi-p/67274
https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/EndOfLifePolicy/
https://it.ucsf.edu/news/apple-releases-macos-catalina-1015-updated

Regardless of what SmiteWorks does in the short term regarding OSX 10.12, it's likely that Unity will stop supporting OSX 10.12 in their platform with the next release, and SmiteWorks like likely have to drop support then in order to upgrade the Unity platform code that FG Unity depends on.

You should really consider upgrading OSX to 10.13 or 10.14 (though not 10.15 until FG Unity comes out since it drops support for 32-bit apps including FG Classic) regardless of how SmiteWorks handles this today. You're going to be missing security updates very soon if you haven't already, and no one will tell you how serious what you're missing is.