Mojca Miklavec wrote: > I'm pretty sure one can make it build without 10.7 SDK, it will just > take quite a bit of work to do so. Perhaps you know if there is an > elegant way to actually patch the code in a way that would be > acceptable for upstream in case we manage to find a sufficient set of > patches (other than using a bunch of #if statements all over the > place)?
How could you not use a bunch of #ifs if the code actually uses 10.7+ API calls that have to be filtered out? Well, there *is* a way to do it following Qt's approach with d-pointers, where you put new stuff and things that don't work across the board in a private class, but that only reduces the number of #ifs required for features that aren't available on all supported platforms. And it's (probably) trickier to do right in C than C++ (as far as that's relevant here). Of course it also requires a far more extensive refactoring effort than simply putting #ifs all over the place. And such an effort and extensive changes would probably be deemed out of proportion upstream if they're only to support a legacy OS, unless you can make a case that it'll prove useful for future introduction of other features that require a newer SDK than they'd like to require. R. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
