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Re: Java portability?



At 11:04 AM +0800 28/08/2008, Shay Telfer wrote:
 >>>>> >>>>> "Hasan" == Hasan Edain <email@hidden> writes:

 Hasan> Along. The way we seem to have made a serious technology
 Hasan> mistake. We =20 moved to JDK 1.5 features (especially
 Hasan> enums). Now we seem to be very =20 limited in terms of where the
 Hasan> games made in this platform can be =20 deployed in terms of the
 Hasan> Mac platform.

It's actually pretty common in the Mac world for new software to only
support the current OS (10.5) and the previous OS (10.4).  Obviously
you'll have to decide for yourself, but at least consider the
possibility that supporting 10.2 and 10.3 isn't as important as you seem
to think... especially if you're thinking ahead to the next few years
and not just the immediate present.

-- Seth Tisue / http://tisue.net lead developer, NetLogo: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/


These are not quite the graphs I was looking for, but they're possibly useful to you nonetheless when examining where to target your apps with relation to OS versions:

http://www.atomicbird.com/sparkle-stats
http://www.adiumx.com/sparkle/

Also, if you're producing Apps for the Mac platform you may want to check out the Mac Software Business mailing list

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/

And if you're using QuickTime for Java you may want to join the qtjava mailing list, and probably some form of therapy group.

http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/quicktime-java

Have fun,
Shay
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