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Re: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ?
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  • Subject: Re: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ?
  • From: Alexander von Below <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:09:10 +0200

Oh, I am not disputing that! Compiling against the older SDK is the safest way.

However, especially on iOS, it is very, very painful to make sure your App runs on iOS (Current-1). And I am wondering, why Apple is not making that easier for us.

Alex

Am 21.07.2011 um 17:07 schrieb Dallman, John:

>> I believe that all the headers contain that information in machine readable
>> form, why on this planet can't Xcode 4 tell me "You are using an API that
>> is not available on your deployment target", so I can take care of that (i.e.
>> do run-time checks or avoid using that API)
>
> I used to believe that with respect to 10.6 and 10.5. Then I had a look at the
> headers and found it didn't always seem to be true. Since most of the code I
> compile on Macs wasn't written on Macs, and has to be portable between a lot of
> operating systems, I found it very much safer to compile against the SDK headers
> for the oldest version I needed to support.
>
> --
> John Dallman
>

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 >Re: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ? (From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ? (From: Alexander von Below <email@hidden>)
 >RE: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ? (From: "Dallman, John" <email@hidden>)

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