Hi Slava,
I understand the need to keep things moving forward. That said I
don't totally understand the decision, and I guess I missed the
announcement. MacOSX 10.4 is kind of like Windows XP, lots of people
are still on it. Just as people aren't upgrading to Vista in mass,
I've seen the same with 10.4. I don't really want to run Factor in a VM.
Oh well, I guess this was the kick in the pants I needed to upgrade
to Leopard...
Thanks,
Glenn
V. Glenn Tarcea
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On Sep 20, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Slava Pestov wrote:
Hi Glenn,
Since I don't want to complicate the code base with two Cocoa bridges,
it came down to a choice between continued support for 10.4, or
getting Factor on 64-bit Mac OS X. I had been looking forward to the
latter for quite some time, since the larger fixnum size, maximum
array size and number of registers are very nice to have.
We have a similar situation on Windows, where Windows XP provides a
new API that makes structured exception handling much easier to use.
I'd rather keep the VM code clean than support Windows 2000.
It has been almost a year since OS X 10.5 was released. At this stage
of Factor development I don't want to invest too much effort into
backwards compatibility. If you don't want to upgrade to OS X 10.5,
perhaps you could run Factor on Linux in a VM.
Slava
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Glenn Tarcea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Doug,
10.4 is going to be around for a while, it seems like its worth
supporting.
At the company I work at we haven't upgraded a single Mac to 10.5.
Was there official announcement dropping support for 10.5?
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