wx-dev] [wxMac] minimum OS X version for trunk

[Stefan Csomor]

Hi

jtgxbass wrote:
> I see the problem but have not been overjoyed by the dropping of 10.2 
> and now possible 10.3.
>
> In fairness, I found a little build tweaking of 2.8.* would still 
> allow our apps to run on 10.2.x upwards so obviously there has been a 
> fair amount of care taken to support as many versions as possible of 
> OS X anyway.
>
> Therefore my view is this... its fine to drop the support but make 
> sure you still use the os x version macro's to guard code that is only 
> available on 10.x.x and up and ideally provide alternatives where it 
> isnt.
>
> This way we at least get a /chance/ to use latest wx on older versions 
> of os x (even if tweaking is needed).
the thing is that the code really becomes thick, having to support 10.3 
and at the same time make sure take advantage of the new frameworks 
under 10.5 64 bit is just too much, I have to limit the scope of my 
pro-bono work in order to advance at all. So you'd have 2.8 for 10.3. Eg 
supporting 10.3 means also to leave a lot of Quickdraw code in there, 
which really is getting into the way. It isn't just using a different 
API call there and then, but also just doing things 'the other way' 
which is making this more painful.

Best,

Stefan