Re: [platform-swt-dev] MacOS X Poll: Continue support for 10.1.5?

[Craig Pugsley <craigp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm happy to go over to 10.2.

The same argument goes for upgrading to 10.x from 9.x.x, progress is 
only made when developers can stop putting their energy into 
'supporting' platforms and instead concentrate on putting energy into 
'developing' for platforms.

If there are those among us who still use 10.1.5, then that is their 
choice - but they can't expect the rest of the world to stay there with 
them.

/rant    ;-)

CraigP

On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 04:12 PM, Andre Weinand wrote:

> Hi,
> Since 08/24 MacOS X 10.2 (aka "Jaguar") is generally available.
> I'm using Jaguar for almost 8 weeks now and I'm impressed by the
> speed improvements (especially for Java), and overall robustness.
>
> Recently I started to use APIs in the MacOS X port of SWT that are 
> only available in Jaguar.
> These APIs make porting of SWT much easier.
>
> New Jaguar functionality that I can leverage:
>
> - a new view system ("HIViews") that is much closer to SWT than the 
> old ControlManager.
>   I could get rid of ugly and slow emulation code.
>
> - a Carbon ComboBox (and I hope a Toolbar and a ScrollView),
>
> - support for calling Cocoa from Carbon (e.g. for leveraging the Cocoa 
> Font Chooser),
>
> And there is probably more...
>
> I tried to find a way to support both 10.2 and 10.1.5 with a single 
> swt.jar and two dlls.
> But it was just a pain: it made the code ugly and it slowed 
> development down considerably (partially because I always had to 
> reboot into the other OS...).
>
> So here is my question:
>
> I would like to drop support for 10.1.5 in all future drops of the 
> MacOS X port of SWT.
>
> Is this OK for you?
>
> --andre
>
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             CraigP
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