Re: No more .ibplugins in Xcode 4, so now what...?
Re: No more .ibplugins in Xcode 4, so now what...?
- Subject: Re: No more .ibplugins in Xcode 4, so now what...?
- From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:51:56 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Fri, 13 May 2011 13:43:36 -0700, Greg Parker said:
>> That's a very minor technical problem. Starting with 10.6 (IIRC) System
>> Preference plugins went from non-GC to requiring GC. It wasn't a major
>> transition.
>
>Note that there was no transition of existing preference pane binaries.
>32-bit preference panes are still non-GC. 64-bit preference panes
>require GC, but there were no 64-bit preference panes before 10.6.
Thanks for the clarification. But the developer still had to transition
_his code_ from non-GC to either 1) GC-only and drop 32 bit (likely not
desirable) or 2) dual mode.
I think most developers would have accepted a loss of _binary_
compatibility of their ibplugins, after all the target users of
ibplugins are developers themselves. Refactoring to support dual mode
and rebuilding would not be a big burden.
(In my case, my code is GC-only and 64 bit only. I had to go backwards
and make it support non-GC to get my ibplugin working.)
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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