| A bit of advice for all people who plan on ever upgrading the Mac OS at sometime in the future.
Get VMWare. Put the OS you want in a VM. Run and test in that.
That way you don't run the risk of destabilizing your work flow on your production OS to test the next one.
You can even duplicate a VM and upgrade that.
I can simply boot up 10.8.x and 10.9.x in a 5 GB memory partition (this is good enough if you don't use Safari or Firefox in your VM) while I have booted my Mac to which ever OS I prefer.
Memory is nicely partitioned. If you've got a fast drive, an SSD or run off a RAM disk, any virtualized version of the Mac OS is more than fast enough.
I've been doing it for 3 or 4 years and it's great to be able to test out software without putting my working system(s) at risk of anything.
Plus, I think VMWare Fusion is about 50 bucks.
The time you save alone is worth it. On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:02 PM, James Gretton wrote: Jörgen - that's stunningly useful, thank you so much.
GUI wise I haven't implemented anything more than display dialogs and a file picker so no worries there. Not sure about the give up parameter, I have a vague memory of this not working for me anyway so perhaps wont be a problem (or if not Yvans suggestion might help!
Hopefully this might be on the easier side to do. I still think I'd do it through VM or on a separate machine first, but it sounds like it should be feasible without the client having to re-mortgage his house to pay for my time! :)
Thanks again to everyone
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