A loaded question or two..
How many of you are still using Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)?
I don't actually collect stats on this other than from the crash reports that users send to me. From those it seems that the majority are on Leopard or Snow Leopard with 4% still on Tiger. This is from crash reports from the start of June. Is this representative?
Going forward I'd quite like to tidy up the internals of BeerAlchemy on the Mac using the new stuff from the iPhone. Having one code base makes it a lot easier to fix bugs once and maintain compatibility between the two. The iPhone code is also a lot more efficient and generally better written. Unfortunately using the iPhone code would mean killing Tiger support.
The other question is about PowerPC support. My guess is there's a lot more people using G5 and G4 machines than there are still using Tiger. Am I right? I should still be able build universal binaries after moving to the iPhone code so that is less of an issue right now.
I'm just toying with the idea at the moment but it's interesting to note that in xCode on Snow Leopard you have to specifically install the stuff to allow you to build for Tiger. My money's on it being removed completely on the next major xCode version (as well as support for universal binaries). When that happens I won't have a choice...
I don't actually collect stats on this other than from the crash reports that users send to me. From those it seems that the majority are on Leopard or Snow Leopard with 4% still on Tiger. This is from crash reports from the start of June. Is this representative?
Going forward I'd quite like to tidy up the internals of BeerAlchemy on the Mac using the new stuff from the iPhone. Having one code base makes it a lot easier to fix bugs once and maintain compatibility between the two. The iPhone code is also a lot more efficient and generally better written. Unfortunately using the iPhone code would mean killing Tiger support.
The other question is about PowerPC support. My guess is there's a lot more people using G5 and G4 machines than there are still using Tiger. Am I right? I should still be able build universal binaries after moving to the iPhone code so that is less of an issue right now.
I'm just toying with the idea at the moment but it's interesting to note that in xCode on Snow Leopard you have to specifically install the stuff to allow you to build for Tiger. My money's on it being removed completely on the next major xCode version (as well as support for universal binaries). When that happens I won't have a choice...
posted by Steve Flack at 3:20 PM
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I'm using Snow Leopard/Intel.
I used to always be up-to-date, but since buying an old house and having a baby I haven't had money to update. I'm still using an old PowerPC machine with OS 10.4. Yeah, I'm that guy. I hope to be able to upgrade soon... but the roof started leaking yesterday, so we'll see.
I'm stuck on an old G4 Laptop, but also have the iPod touch version.
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