Re: Multiple OS's for cross development
Re: Multiple OS's for cross development
- Subject: Re: Multiple OS's for cross development
- From: Michael Rawdon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:35:05 -0700
On Jul 28, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: I'm finding that this app I'm working on currently, has bugs that only show up in 10.3, but not on 10.4
My guess is that 10.4 is more forgiving of things not being done by the book, although it is theoretically possible I'm touching bugs in the MacOS itself.
So I think I'll need to actually have multiple MacOS versions installed, to test on all of them! This is quite a requirement, but necessary, unfortunately.
I'm thinking of putting different versions of MacOSX on an external hard disk, with a few partitions to the disk.
Does anyone have experience doing this? Does this sound like a good or bad idea? I haven't tried it on an external hard drive, but I've done it on an internal hard drive. I think it's a moderately common procedure, for pretty much the reasons you describe.
The main thing to be careful of is sharing user accounts among the different system partitions. Some applications may not share their data-on-disk smoothly with previous versions of themselves. I set up separate user accounts for the earlier system partitions for just this reason. (Of course, if you just use the administrator's account for each partition, then this is trivial.)
-- Michael Rawdon Apple Computer, Cupertino CA Xcode Developer email@hidden
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