Re: XCode for Jaguar?
Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- Subject: Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:10:41 +0100
On dimanche, octobre 26, 2003, at 03:41 AM, Chris Hanson wrote:
On Oct 25, 2003, at 6:57 PM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
His software is now incompatible with previous OS versions. A big
step for backward compatibility. And an interesting question is: is
the code faster or slower than before?
That is an interesting question. I suspect the performance is
comparable.
And as for incompatibility, if it costs 50% as much to write
Panther-only software compared to Jaguar- and Panther-compatible
software, for some markets the economics could favor writing
Panther-only even if Panther isn't widely adopted at first.
If you can be 100% sure that the target is Panther only, yes, but I'm
wondering if this represents a huge percentage of the total market.
I'm wondering whether I should say or not that developing with
Panther is currently a nightmare for me compared to Jaguar.
You should say that, and you should be specific about why and in what
way it's a nightmare.
Perhaps some of us could help you.
Some examples:
- no backward compatibility for some libraries (libSystemB.dylib to
name it) and calls. A C/C++ project compiled on 10.3 might not work on
10.2. You have to target 10.2 and if you have to target 10.2, why not
just use 10.2.
- you have to refrain from using some 10.3 specific widgets for
compatibility purpose.
- XCode look might be great but I don't like using it. I'm counter
productive with XCode, spending lots of time to display the information
I want to be displayed. It's reminding me Visual Studio.
- I'm wondering why they are re-organizing the IB palettes with every
new Dev Tools release.
- Lack of NSSegmentedControl edition in IB is reminding me of the
NSTabView case in early IB releases.
- Increasing backward incompatibilities of nib files
- more and more Cocoa API or methods that look like to be interesting
but are not backward compatible. For instance the WebKit related
Foundation APIs. You can't be sure WebKit is there on 10.2.
My $0.02
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