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Re: [platform-swt-dev] MacOS X Poll: Continue support for 10.1.5?
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Definitely Jaguar. Eclipse and SWT are all about moving ahead, and so
is Jaguar.
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Pat
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 09:12 AM, 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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