Re: PB under Panther
Re: PB under Panther
- Subject: Re: PB under Panther
- From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:52:52 +0000
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 05:04 am, Creed Erickson wrote:
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Alastair J.Houghton wrote:
3. Even if it does work, who knows which systems will be able to run
the resulting executables. They'll work on Panther, because that was
where they were built, but they might not work on any previous
incarnation of Mac OS X.
This is a bit overstated, almost hyperbole. PB is just the UI/building
part of the development environment. The concerns you're expressing
are fundamentally library/compiler/linker issues. If those tools can
build deployable apps with Xcode or from the command line, then why
would they be unable to build deployable apps under PB?
Agreed, perhaps I did overstate the problem, but the point I was trying
to make is that whilst Xcode has the multiple SDK support, Project
Builder does not. If any of the libraries that the tools choose to
link against are incompatible or not present on previous versions of
the system, then apps. built with Project Builder won't be
backwards-compatible. The underlying tools, of course, are fine, and
you might be able to use Xcode's SDKs from PB by setting
compiler/linker options if you're really determined.
So it's probably best not to use PB on Panther.
This statement I do agree with, however.
-- Creed
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