Re: New G5 under Panther or XCode 1.5 under Tiger
Re: New G5 under Panther or XCode 1.5 under Tiger
- Subject: Re: New G5 under Panther or XCode 1.5 under Tiger
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:13:58 +0200
On 17 maj 2005, at 10.05, Jay Vaughan wrote:
as an apple developr, personally i think this policy of apples' is
ridiculous - cross-compiling for earlier OS/XCode releases is
actually pretty difficult; i gave up trying to manage the
administration of the XCode tools (lets see, first a gcc_select,
install more SDK's, set SDK->10.1, Target settings->10.1...
ermm...) and ended up just buying a MiniMac and putting multiple
partitions on it - one for each OSX release I had to support, each
with their own build tools (Xcode) installed locally.
I beg to differ. Cross development is pretty easy (at least if you
drop support for 10.1), "cross testing" on the other hand is not.
not being able to run OSX10.1 on a new G5, i'd be pretty miffed ..
how are developers supposed to be able to -really- test their
releases for earlier Apple OS's? please don't tell me 'buy a mini-
mac', i did that already, and i don't like having to! should i
start writing code for microsoft again?!
Is that a threat? You're a funny guy! :D
I can understand why Apple doesn't try to support older OS releases
with drivers for new hardware. It comes down to how they want to
prioritize their engineering resources. What would be nice though, is
some sort of emulation environment - like VPC, Classic or VMWare - to
allow us to run older OS releases in parallel with the latest and
greatest.
But you know what to do when you think something needs to be changed,
right? Head over to RadarWeb!
j o a r
Attachment:
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Xcode-users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden