On 18 Aug 2018, at 20:45, Mike Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "older OS versions", porting to 10.6 or later vs. 10.10 or later: > > I at first intended all the drivers I write for my clients to work on > Snow Leopard 10.6, but after actually attempting to do so I settled > upon supporting El Capitan 10.11, sometimes just Sierra 12.6.
Slightly off topic, but drivers are definitely the worst case, as sometimes you need to use the old SDKs to build them, and the Xcode team is, in my view, somewhat overenthusiastic about dropping support for them… the Deployment Target setting isn’t always sufficient. I do wonder, actually, how much thought is given to those of us who have KEXTs to build when pondering whether or not to drop an SDK from Xcode. There have been some other pain points in recent macOS versions relating to KEXTs also (changes to driver signing, the recent blocking of third-party KEXTs until the user visits System Preferences to confirm their installation, etc.). One would almost think Apple didn’t want us writing low-level code… Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
