[MlMt] Big Sur and 2.0 branch?

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 17 Dec 2020, at 7:30, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 16 Dec 2020, at 17:06, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> I'm running Build 6151, from the 2.0 branch, and will likely need to 
>> move to Big Sur very soon.
>>
>> a)	Will 6151 work? (In brief tests on a scratch machine, I didn't 
>> notice any problems, but those tests were brief)
>
> Printing doesn't work and there are other less serious issues, but 
> note that the 2.0 branch won't get any more updates. I'll be retiring 
> it as soon as I'm confident the 1.x branch can fully replace it (a few 
> Viewer related preferences are still missing).
>
>> b)	Will I be able to install the latest beta from the 1.x branch 
>> without problems with configurations and databases?
>
> Yes. I also recommend using the latest test release on Big Sur: Hold 
> down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update 
> preferences pane.

Thanks. I installed it, with that update, on the scratch machine. With
one exception, it seems fine—but the exception will likely annoy some
people: it's not showing up in Launchpad. That is, I uncompressed
the tar file and dragged it to /Applications. The icon isn't there, nor
can the search function find it. It's not problem for me, since not only
can I just fire it up from Finder, I keep it pinned to my Dock. Why 
not—
it's virtually always running…
>
>> By "very soon", I mean "my new laptop will be arriving tomorrow or 
>> Friday"…
>
> Congrats on the new laptop. (Note that MailMate is not a universal app 
> yet if it's an M1 CPU, but it should still work.)
>
Arrival is delayed a bit—a storm that's dropping 45cm of snow can
affect deliveries… (I ordered an Intel CPU—I really want the 32 GB
of RAM, and there were too many applications I rely on that weren't
officially supported.)


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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