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Re: 10.6 SDk and 10.5 Deployment
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Re: 10.6 SDk and 10.5 Deployment


  • Subject: Re: 10.6 SDk and 10.5 Deployment
  • From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:13:53 -0500

On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:53 PM, koko wrote:

> Ok, so what is the real truth regarding using a base SDK of 10.6 and a deployment target of 10.5?
>
> The blogosphere says this cannot be done and Apple says it is OK.
>
> We have issues running a 10.6 SDK build on a 10.5.8 system.
>
> We have a certain percentage of customers who are on 10.5.8.
>
> Who should I believe? Apple or the blogosphere?

It can definitely be done in theory.

In practice you have to test the heck out of it, because without the 10.5 SDK, there’s nothing keeping you from accidentally using 10.6+ APIs, whose effects will only show up by throwing runtime exceptions on 10.5.

Charles


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