Re: SDK 10.6 with Target 10.5
Re: SDK 10.6 with Target 10.5
- Subject: Re: SDK 10.6 with Target 10.5
- From: Aaron Burghardt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:23:02 -0400
On Mar 15, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>> I filed a bug,
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> Your bug wasn't even looked at? Does that really surprise you? If they decided to get rid of 10.5 in Xcode 4, forget it, you'll never get a resolution of your bug. It will linger forever in the bug database.
No, it doesn't. About a third of the bugs I have ever filed are still open with no update, years later. They are no longer relevant, so I wish *I* could delete them.
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> I filed a few bugs for Snow Leopard that were duplicates of other bugs reported. They have been reported over a year ago and they're still "working" on them. What actually happened is that Apple has already decided to focus on Lion and will fix only the most urgent bugs in 10.6. For all purposes, 10.6 is already a dead product...
My sliver of hope is that more feedback will make them more considerate in the future. They do state that the number of reports is a consideration.
On Mar 15, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
> 3.2.6 still has the 10.5 SDK, so you don't need both 3.2.5 and 3.2.6. But yes, you're doomed with Xcode 4, with the exception of symlinking and other trickery already mentioned.
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My mistake, I thought I read that 3.2.6 dropped it, too.
>> And that sounds reasonable?
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> From Apple's perspective, yes. Most of what they sell is iOS, so you're a minority already. The current Mac OS (internally) is Lion, 10.6 is antique, 10.5 is pre-history, but still supported with the 10.6 SDK in general, except in rare cases (like yours). Your bug will never be fixed. :(
In my case, I actually am using the 10.6 SDK and passing the absolute paths to just one 10.5 library to the linker. Ironically, another option might be to include a custom build of the library into the executable, but that would invalidate FIPS-140 certification, I think (not an issue now, but potentially in the future).
Another perspective, which I included in the bug report, is that we use an old G5 as a Redmine, Postgres, Trac, Git, etc. server. I would like to build these as universal one time on my dev machine and just install on the G5. But, without 10.5 and PPC support, I have to build them on the G5.
I'm an exception in a lot of ways. We can't use wireless here, so I can't use a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad, and Apple will never make wired versions. Our developer machines can't be on the Internet, so I have to download documentation updates on another machine and copy them over, so I'm used to mucking around inside /Developer.
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