On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 8:25:22 PM UTC-4, Jens Alfke wrote: > > We’re weighing the pros and cons of dropping iOS 7 support in Couchbase > Lite. > > The big advantage is that we can package the framework as a proper dynamic > library, instead of as a static library. This will eliminate a lot of > annoying build issues, both for the CBL team and for you developers. (I > hate to think of how many hours I’ve spent in the past five years dealing > with static library crap in Xcode…) >
My first experience with dynamic libraries required adding a build script to strip the x64 slice (to support the simulator) when packaging IPAs for submission to the app store. Otherwise, it would not pass validation. Not really a big deal, but it was quite unexpected and took a few hours to find a working solution. > > The disadvantage, of course, is that it’s a deal-breaker for any developer > who still needs to support iOS 7 in their app. > > So I thought I’d informally poll whether any of you still need iOS 7 > support, and if so, for how much longer. (It appears > <https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/> that only about 3% of users > still run iOS 7; 85% are on iOS 9.) > Both CBL apps I'm working on moved to iOS 9.0 earlier this year. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/1f74710a-0e2f-400a-8568-7b32ae73d3c8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
