Hi Richmond, Can I test a Linux version on the Mac?
John Balgenorth On Feb 27, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27/02/15 13:55, Graham Samuel wrote: >> Maybe for completeness I should have said that you will have to pay for a >> legitimate copy of Windows 8 or 7 or whatever - you can get OEM versions but >> you still have to register with Microsoft to get them to work. Then you can >> honestly say that your app works on whatever flavour of Windows you >> purchased. So, you’ll have ended up paying for a modern version of Parallels >> and for Windows. It is not beyond imagination that you could acquire a >> Windows laptop for say twice as much… not what I’d do, but YMMV. >> >> Graham >> >> > > I own a legal version of Windows 7 and one of Mac OS 10.8, and I run them > both in VMware with no obvious > problems. > > As VMware player is FREE and reliable, once one has paid for the operating > systems one's bank account > can have a break. > > I find that I tend to build standalones for each platform ON that platform . > . . havinbg got myself in "the soup" on > or two times running off standalones on Linux for Win and Mac. > > Oddly enough I have never had problems with standalones for Win XP run off on > Linux; but have fallen in the soup > a couple of times with Win 7. > > In fact, that is probably the only times I use either Windows or Mac OS 10.8 > . . . > > My Devawriter and so on are developed on Mac OS 10.5 on a G5 iMac, and > everything else > on Linux. > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
