Re: Getting back into MacOSX development after some time off

Matt Neuburg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.devel
Message-ID <C726D557.4F098%[email protected]>
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:58:49 -0800, "Mr. George Warner" <[email protected]>
said:
>On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:10:17 -0800 (PST), jerry porter <jep9816-/[email protected]>
wrote:
>> I think I figured out how to "migrate" to 10.6 SDK in my code.
>> I started by playing with the Active SDK and the architecture settings.
>
>Remember that the SDK should be set to the NEWEST version of Mac OS X that you
want to run on and the DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to the oldest. For example, for PowerPC
Leopard, Intel Snow Leopard and deploy to Tiger:
>
>SDKROOT = macosx10.6
>SDKROOT[arch=ppc] = macosx10.5
>MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.4

I often hear this stated as the "conventional wisdom", but my own experience
is that if I do that, I don't get the warnings I need in order to discover
that my app is not backwards compatible. m.

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