Xcode 4 supports 10.5!
Xcode 4 supports iOS 4.3!
I do not see M$ offering a Development system for free.
Lion is out in beta!
regards
Keith.
Am 11.03.2011 um 12:22 schrieb Bayard Bell:
> Agreed. Xcode 4 looks to be there for Lion support, so it's logical that it
> would drop support for 10.5 and any platforms that don't have support after
> that point. When Apple introduced Leopard, they weren't even shipping
> PPC-based systems anymore, and it's now getting on five years since the Power
> Mac G5 was discontinued. Now, as Snow Leopard removed PPC as a default part
> of universal builds, I expect that PPC support has been diminished by Snow
> Leopard uptake. (As far as these things go, it would be easier to support
> platform/OS transitions if Apple had terms for supporting virtualised
> non-server installs.) Renewing commitment to PPC after Lion transition
> wouldn't just be a significant commitment and a change of direction but would
> have to start from a capacity that has atrophied for some years.
>
> On the other hand, we're talking about a compiler suite that's just shipped
> with a relationship to an as-yet unshipped OS that hasn't been clarified by
> Apple. I certainly wouldn't expect it to "just work" at this stage, and,
> although its introduction will require some decisions to be made about
> transition issues, about all that can be tabled at this point is background
> on policy and history, which doesn't establish more than preferences and how
> people arrive at them.
>
> On a separate note, I think it's pretty lame to have to buy a compiler suite
> license in addition to an OS license. If you want to charge for the IDE,
> fine, but in that case, please provide a separate free distribution of the
> compiler suite. Taken together with Apple's terms for in-app payments and
> content subscriptions, Apple is clearly moving from revenue sharing to rent
> seeking from developers and putting a squeeze on FOSS development for its
> platform in the process, which is a most unwelcome turn.
>
> On 11 Mar 2011, at 09:46, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> On 03/11/2011 10:28 AM, Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote:
>>> I believe it should be important to keep PPC compatibility and
>>> somehow automate the process of "keeping" the old SDK files...
>>
>> Xcode 4 is for Snow Leopard only which does not support ppc anymore.
>> Lion is going to be around soon. MacPorts usually supports the latest
>> two releases of Mac OS X, which will become Snow Leopard and Lion. None
>> of them runs on ppc anymore, so in the context of MacPorts I don't think
>> it is worth to support compiling for ppc with Xcode 4.
>>
>> Rainer
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