On Oct 27, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Janusz Bossy <janusz.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Douglas Drumond
> <drumond.doug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Newer versions won't work in older Macs and cross-compiling is too much of a
>> hassle because of different python and ruby versions.
> 
> I assume this is related to Vim, not MacVim? Apple does make it ease
> for the developers to compile apps that run on all the different
> versions of OS X. You just need to setup your build parameters
> properly and make sure to properly use the APIs unavailable in
> previous versions of the OS.

Unlike most other apps, MacVim links to the Apple-supplied versions of
Perl, Python, and Ruby, which are something of a moving target between
major OS versions.

If you could demonstrate a way of avoiding this hassle, I'm sure Björn (and
others) would be quite interested.

Cheers,
Carl

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