Re: [platform-swt-dev] MacOS X Poll: Continue support for 10.1.5?

["Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am in favor of dumping 10.1.5.

By the time the port is complete, everyone using OS X should be on at least Jaguar so I do not think it is a hardship.  The type of developer that is going to use this early version of the port would likely be on Jaguar anyway.

Mark

Andre Weinand <weinand@xxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 08/27/2002 12:12 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

To:        platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx         cc:                 Subject:        [platform-swt-dev] MacOS X Poll: Continue support for 10.1.5?

Hi,
Since 08/24 MacOS X 10.2 (aka "Jaguar") is generally available.
I'm using Jaguar for almost 8 weeks now and I'm impressed by the
speed improvements (especially for Java), and overall robustness.

Recently I started to use APIs in the MacOS X port of SWT that are 
only available in Jaguar.
These APIs make porting of SWT much easier.

New Jaguar functionality that I can leverage:

- a new view system ("HIViews") that is much closer to SWT than the 
old ControlManager.
   I could get rid of ugly and slow emulation code.

- a Carbon ComboBox (and I hope a Toolbar and a ScrollView),

- support for calling Cocoa from Carbon (e.g. for leveraging the 
Cocoa Font Chooser),

And there is probably more...

I tried to find a way to support both 10.2 and 10.1.5 with a single 
swt.jar and two dlls.
But it was just a pain: it made the code ugly and it slowed 
development down considerably (partially because I always had to 
reboot into the other OS...).

So here is my question:

I would like to drop support for 10.1.5 in all future drops of the 
MacOS X port of SWT.

Is this OK for you?

--andre

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