macOS version support policy

It never happened AFAICT. I had asked for something along the lines of

to be done in the course of Proposed PEP 11 update -- policy for unsupported platforms, but that was deemed off-topic.

As it happens, I recently had to look at this again, because libc++ v22.1 is raising the minimum deployment target to 11.0, which affects us in conda-forge. Below the fold is the same analysis as above (28 days of downloads for requests on osx, split by macOS version).

version downloads percentage cumulative percentage users >=version
10.1 2 0.0000% 2 0.0000% 100.0000%
10.5 7 0.0001% 9 0.0001% 100.0000%
10.6 4 0.0001% 13 0.0002% 99.9999%
10.7 2 0.0000% 15 0.0002% 99.9998%
10.8 3 0.0000% 18 0.0002% 99.9998%
10.9 39 0.0005% 57 0.0007% 99.9998%
10.10 26 0.0003% 83 0.0011% 99.9993%
10.11 65 0.0008% 148 0.0019% 99.9989%
10.12 205 0.0026% 353 0.0045% 99.9981%
10.13 1,319 0.0168% 1,672 0.0213% 99.9955%
10.14 1,470 0.0188% 3,142 0.0401% 99.9787%
10.15 15,094 0.19% 18,236 0.23% 99.96%
10.16 232,838 2.97% 251,074 3.20% 99.77%
11 17,199 0.22% 268,273 3.42% 96.80%
12 92,973 1.19% 361,246 4.61% 96.58%
13 157,024 2.00% 518,270 6.61% 95.39%
14 1,083,349 13.82% 1,601,619 20.43% 93.39%
15 4,118,308 52.53% 5,719,927 72.97% 79.57%
26 1,948,673 24.86% 7,668,600 97.82% 27.03%
27 336 0.00% 7,668,936 97.83% 2.18%
Invalid 9,095 0.12% 7,678,031 97.94% 2.17%
None 161,146 2.06% 7,839,177 100.00% 2.06%
Sum 7,839,177 100%

Note that 10.16 is a misreported version corresponding to something >=11.0.

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