Just one more thing...

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:go88pa$1guq$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can you upgrade to 10.5 ?
>>>> It's only a few months left to "Snow Leopard",
>>>> then we can play the same game all over again.
>>> Yeah, but 10.5 has working posix threads. It's doubtful whether 10.4 is 
>>> worth the effort.
>>
>> Ordinarily, I detest the idea of pulling support for anything as recent 
>> as just a few years old. But Apple themselves has a habit of ignoring 
>> users of anything except the latest version, so I would think that mac 
>> users would be accustomed to the old routine of their OS becoming a 
>> deadend the moment a new version comes out. So, in this case, I would 
>> think that there may actually be justification in sticking with 10.5+, if 
>> you were to so choose.
>
> I would not completely agree with you on this. When you install the 
> developer tools on osx 10.5 it installs SDKs for 10.5 and 10.4 as default, 
> but you can also choose to install support for older versions. I'm not 
> sure if it's only for 10.3 or also for 10.2.
>
> Then what about Carbon, Classic (don't know if this is still available) 
> and Rosetta, environments and libraries to support older applications.

I was referring more to Apple's own software (which tends to be fairly 
important when using a mac). For instance I remember not being able to use 
XCode (instead of Project Builder) because I was on 10.2, and not being able 
to use certain parts of the "iLife" suite (or newer versions of them) 
because my OS was merely one point release behind (ie, only about 1.5 years 
old, at the time). But I dunno, maybe things have been changing since then.