Re: "weak link" framework refs for 10.1 compatibility?
Re: "weak link" framework refs for 10.1 compatibility?
- Subject: Re: "weak link" framework refs for 10.1 compatibility?
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:43:08 -0700
As soon as future versions of Mac OS X are released, developers can
use weak linking to link to frameworks that may not exists or may
move in future versions of OS X. But it would only work down to 10.2.
Ack, at 11/11/02, Bill Cheeseman said:
It's a sad fact that, without heroic efforts, many apps that use newer
features will simply crash without warning when run under Mac OS X 10.0 or
10.1. This will be true forever, apparently, and it will be true of more and
more applications as time goes by because more and more new features will be
added to the commonly-used frameworks. Eventually, nobody except my
mother-in-law will be running 10.1, and then it won't matter any more. The
availability macros will work in the future to enable apps compiled on 10.3,
10.4, etc. to launch on 10.2, but never on 10.1 or 10.0. From a
backward-compatibility viewpoint, 10.2 is a significant watershed. It will
always be relatively easy to make future applications backward-compatible
with 10.2, compared to making them backward-compatible with 10.1 or 10.0.
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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
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