Tiger compatibility may only be there for 10.3.9 and Tiger
Paul Bergsagel <[email protected]> Mon, 02 May 2005 19:36:04 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.macosx |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Here is a quote I found on VersionTracker for a program called "Jotz". Read this quote: "In order to work on the Tiger compatibility problem, I had to install the Tiger development tools. Apple set the default compiler in the tools to the new GCC 4.0, which looks like a fine compiler with many nice features.... EXCEPT, for the little gotcha that it only builds applications compatible with 10.3.9 and Tiger. This little zinger is documented, but only in the "fine print" of the "About" document accompanying the tools release, which normally has nothing of interest in it. The gotcha is not noted in the release notes, where it certainly belongs. Ouch." The quote is found here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16185 I suspect this will make it difficult for Mozilla to support as many versions of OS X as it has in the past. Those on 10.3.x can always update to 10.3.9 for free. What about the users still on 10.2.x? Will Mozilla solve this issue by dropping support for 10.2.x? Will there be separate versions compiled for OS X versions earlier than 10.3.9 and another version for 10.3.9 and Tiger?