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Re: OpenTransport Versions
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Re: OpenTransport Versions


  • Subject: Re: OpenTransport Versions
  • From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:21:55 -0600

At 10:56 AM +0000 3/29/02, Quinn wrote:
A better idea might be to use URLAccess. This is available on 8.6 and above (an much more reasonable minimum system version) and provides a very high-level API for accessing URLs.

Not only that, but if you've decided to limit yourself to Mac OS 8.6 and above, you can use Carbon and develop a single application that runs natively on both Mac OS 8.6-9.2.2 and Mac OS X.

You can't do this if you have to work with any version of the Mac OS prior to Mac OS 8.6. (You can ship a single binary that has both Carbon and non-Carbon applications in it using FatCarbon, but you still have to essentially develop two versions of the application.)

What's more, if you're using Carbon, you can use Core Foundation and Unicode everywhere, making internationalization easier. And if you're limited to Mac OS 8.6 and higher, you can use CarbonLib 1.5 with the latest & greatest Carbon features like Carbon Events.

Mac OS 8.6 shipped in 1999 and runs pretty well on all PowerPC-based Macintosh computers as long as they have enough RAM and disk. I think it's a reasonable minimum system to require in this day & age.

-- Chris

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