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

["Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am most concerned with the marketability of an app built with Eclipse on
MacOS X in the near term. It seems obvious that a working port on Jaguar is
much better than half-working ports on 10.1.5 and Jaguar, so I say go for
it! (Esp. before the introduction of JDK 1.4 on Mac further delays the
project.)

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Weinand" <weinand@xxxxxxx>
To: <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:12 AM
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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