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Re: Anybody have luck installing 7B49?

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:57:03 -0700, Eric Schlegel <email@hidden> wrote:
>> My only concern is that the new seeds may set preferences that screw
>> things
>> up because they're not backwards compatible when I go back to 10.2.6.
>
> In general, I haven't seen that be a problem. There are occasionally
> isolated instances, but very rarely, and usually they're fixed, because
> it would cause us too much pain internally as we switch back and forth
> too.

Same here. It's a very common practice at Apple to be able to login to our
netinfo accounts from any machine at Apple. That machine might be running
10.1 or 10.2.6 or 10.3 (7B52). For this reason most of our app developers
attempt to keep their preferences as backwards compatible as possible.

Unlike prior to CFPreferences when adding a field to a struct pretty much
messed everything up we can now just add a new key and the old version of
the app will just ignore it and the new app will ignore any old keys still
in the preference data. This makes changing things in the preference file
much safer than before. ;-)

--
Enjoy,
George Warner,
Schizophrenic Optimization Scientists
Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS)
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