On Fri, 13 May 2011 13:43:36 -0700, Greg Parker said: >> That's a very minor technical problem. Starting with 10.6 (IIRC) System >> Preference plugins went from non-GC to requiring GC. It wasn't a major >> transition. > >Note that there was no transition of existing preference pane binaries. >32-bit preference panes are still non-GC. 64-bit preference panes >require GC, but there were no 64-bit preference panes before 10.6.
Thanks for the clarification. But the developer still had to transition _his code_ from non-GC to either 1) GC-only and drop 32 bit (likely not desirable) or 2) dual mode. I think most developers would have accepted a loss of _binary_ compatibility of their ibplugins, after all the target users of ibplugins are developers themselves. Refactoring to support dual mode and rebuilding would not be a big burden. (In my case, my code is GC-only and 64 bit only. I had to go backwards and make it support non-GC to get my ibplugin working.) -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
