site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Martin Costabel writes:
They screwed this up, go back and slap them.
I'd rather slap Apple for having an ancient, weird binary format and toolchain that makes them so hard to support.
Looks like a case of progressive dementia.
Its no wonder MacOSX specific brokenness creeps into OpenSource projects where the primary development is on non-MacOSX platforms. Speaking as somebody who maintains the MacOSX portion of a large project which is built and compiled on many OSes (N versions of Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc), supporting MacOSX's Mach-O is a major PITA. Anything having to do with shared or static libraries needs to be special cased, and is easily broken by other developers who work on linux or solaris and don't test on macosx. One of the things I was really hoping for in the move to x86 was Apple moving to more modern binary format like ELF. But I guess that won't happen.. Drew _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com