On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Andrew Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11 Nov 08, at 15:17, Charles Steinman wrote: >> >> If you look at the QTKit documentation, it will tell you what's been >> available since when. Some things have been there since 10.3, while others >> were added in 10.5. However, I would not recommend distributing Apple's (or >> anyone else's) software with your app unless you have their permission. > > If nothing else, bundles from later versions of Mac OS are unlikely to work > correctly on earlier versions.
...or stated a different way... The API you develop against on the Mac is at the client side (top-side) of frameworks / libraries, it isn't at the kernel boundary. Anything below the framework/library interface boundary is private and hence Apple is free to change things are they see fit. This means that a framework from one version of Mac OS X may be incompatible (in fact is likely to be incompatible) on any other version of Mac OS X. This is why basically everything you link against on Mac OS X is dynamically and not statically linked. -Shawn _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
