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Re: A bit of a dumb question, but I need to know...
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Re: A bit of a dumb question, but I need to know...


  • Subject: Re: A bit of a dumb question, but I need to know...
  • From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:13:03 -0800

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Andrew Farmer <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 11 Nov 08, at 15:17, Charles Steinman wrote:
>>
>> If you look at the QTKit documentation, it will tell you what's been
>> available since when. Some things have been there since 10.3, while others
>> were added in 10.5. However, I would not recommend distributing Apple's (or
>> anyone else's) software with your app unless you have their permission.
>
> If nothing else, bundles from later versions of Mac OS are unlikely to work
> correctly on earlier versions.

...or stated a different way...

The API you develop against on the Mac is at the client side
(top-side) of frameworks / libraries, it isn't at the kernel boundary.
Anything below the framework/library interface boundary is private and
hence Apple is free to change things are they see fit. This means that
a framework from one version of Mac OS X may be incompatible (in fact
is likely to be incompatible) on any other version of Mac OS X.

This is why basically everything you link against on Mac OS X is
dynamically and not statically linked.

-Shawn
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 >A bit of a dumb question, but I need to know... (From: Jean-Nicolas Jolivet <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: A bit of a dumb question, but I need to know... (From: Andrew Farmer <email@hidden>)

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