Re: plugin won't load under osx 10.2.8
Re: plugin won't load under osx 10.2.8
- Subject: Re: plugin won't load under osx 10.2.8
- From: Dave Dyer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:35:18 -0800
>>
>>I fail to see how Apple dropped the ball on anything....
In this case, binary compatability is being sacrificed by default,
just by upgrading the development environment, without actually
using any bleeding edge features. And without due notice to
developers. I don't recall seeing any 40 foot high letters
on the Xcode SDK that said
"WARNING!!! Binaries compiled with Xcode 4.1 are not compatible
with in OS 10.2.8
(by default, unless you jump through these hoops)"
When Apple does this, it lays roadside bombs along the software
distribution road, which will explode in the faces of hundreds
of thousands of endusers, and thousands of small developers.
It will cost everyone involved a lot of money to discover
and fix their compatability problem,
In other words, It will help make Mac's software look as bad as PC's.
Here's what they could have done differently (in order of preference)
Add a "support quad doubles" switch to xcode, default to off,
and do the necessary steps to keep binaries compatible.
or
Treat is as a bugfix, and update libsystem.B.dylib under 10.2.8
to include the missing functions.
or
Remaining backward compatible is an issue because there
is no free upgrade path from 10.2.8 to 10.4. Forego the
revenue, which must be relatively trivial anyway.
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