On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dave Keck <davek...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  So I guess System Preferences doesn't like my garbage collection setting
>> (which is set to "Unsupported").  Do I really need to turn GC on to get my
>> screensaver to work?
>
> Yes, your screensaver must be GC-supported to support Snow Leopard.
> This bit me recently too - I wasn't expecting it either. So much for
> GC making our lives easier, eh? :)
>
> On the bright side, you can make your bundle GC-supported, which means
> it contains both retain/release and GC logic. This will at least buy
> you 10.5 & 10.6 support in the same bundle, but I imagine you'll have
> to compile a separate GC-unsupported version for 10.4, but I'm really
> not sure. Hopefully someone else could comment on that.

You can use per-arch build settings to make the ppc and i386 parts
GC-unsupported, but make the x86_64 part GC-required; there's no need
to build separate bundles.


-- 
Clark S. Cox III
clarkc...@gmail.com
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