Re: Tech update avoiding legacy code
Re: Tech update avoiding legacy code
- Subject: Re: Tech update avoiding legacy code
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:18:01 +0200
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
> Do you have a definite business need to keep supporting 10.5? I can’t believe you have many customers still running it — it came out in 2007 (the last release I worked on at Apple!)
>
> In terms of priorities, I think ARC is the biggest win, followed by GCD. Some people might rate auto-layout higher; I might if I did more GUI stuff.
Auto-layout in (too) many cases is "no gain, lots of pain".
Considering the issues (e.g. performance) with the earlier versions,
planning on losing only 10.5 and 10.6 might be overly optimistic. Even
more if Storyboards are included.
Appa Rao Mulpuri wrote:
> ARC - We lost Mac 10.5 support. And chance of loosing 10.6 as Weak references are not supported in OS X v10.6.
Regarding ARC, there are still some limitations in 10.7 in the AppKit
(window controllers) IIRC.
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