Re: GNUstep Base OpenStep Compliance

[Markus Hitter]

Am Dienstag, 08.04.03 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Helge Hess:

> > Many people had to change their programs between 10.1 and
> > 10.2, but a program compiled on 10.1 would generally continue to work 
> > on
> > 10.2. This is in part caused by the _way_ Apple are changing Cocoa.
>
> Really ? Which people and what did they need to change ?

Well, two things come to mind:

1) All sort of hardware and network related stuff, e.g. the 
introduction of Rendezvous.

2) Introduction of weak linking and a compile variable named 
MAC_OS_X_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.

Both make it difficult for programs compiled on OS X 10.2 to run on 
10.1 and obviously caused some confusion among developers.

But neither of them was a change to existing API.


Cheers,
Markus

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