Re: 10.6 SDK for Xcode 4.4?
Re: 10.6 SDK for Xcode 4.4?
- Subject: Re: 10.6 SDK for Xcode 4.4?
- From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:03:49 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:28:38 -0500, Jeff Johnson said:
>This is the really frustrating thing. There is no supported way to use
>the same SDK to build on both OS X 10.6 and 10.8. Xcode 4.2 is the
>highest supported version on OS X 10.6, but it doesn't have the 10.7
>SDK. Xcode 4.4 is the lowest supported version on OS X 10.8, but it
>doesn't have the 10.6 SDK.
>
>We have apps that still support 10.6. Until today, when 10.8 became the
>latest released OS, we supported only the latest OS (10.7) and the
>previous version (10.6), which is a very common practice for developers.
>We will eventually drop 10.6 support, but it isn't going to happen
>overnight. We need a way to handle 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 simultaneously,
>and Xcode fails us here. We can't truly support an app on an OS version
>without being able to build and debug the app on that OS, so deployment
>target is not sufficient. And using different SDKs on different OS
>versions is not a good option, because the shipping version of the app
>can only use one of the SDKs, and Apple's frameworks can behave very
>differently depending on the SDK you compile against.
More frustrating, IMHO, is the fact that 10.8 has dropped support for so much hardware. It'd be a lot easier to target only 10.8 if it could run on more hardware. I wouldn't mind telling customers: "sorry, this new version requires 10.8, but it's only $20 and you can update from 10.6 or 10.7". But if I have to add, "oh, and you need another $2000 for a new Mac" then... :(
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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