At 02:46 AM 12/29/2015, you wrote: >For the new year, I thought about whether I could drop something for Real >Studio. >The downloads for Real Studio are down to about 10% compared to Xojo plugin >downloads. >The users with Real Studio version capable of building PPC apps may be down to >less than 1%, so I wonder if I still should spend time building PPC and >Universal libraries.
My only objection to this would be that if you added future features or bug-fixes - that I cared about - that WOULD work if you were compiling for 10.4/10.5/PPC, but it won't because you're not. I just got bit by this concerning something unrelated but very similar. I use Stamps.com for postage, and I use a XP computer for industrial-non-pretty stuff. I print International postage on a sticker sheet with two stickers on it. The Stamps.com app USED TO print to both stickers, but a recent update broke it, where it only prints to one sticker. I called in the bug a year ago. I just found out that new versions of the app no longer support XP, so I checked the last XP version, and NO - the bug wasn't fixed. So for eternity (as long as I use the XP machine, which I'd like to forever - I mean, why not?), I have to print to one sticker, and then keep the pages and use the other side later on. It's not a show-stopper, but it is inconvenient. Thanks Stamps.com, for moving on without fixing all the bugs. See, that's what I don't want to get myself into. I will use REAL2011r3 to compile PPC 10.4 apps as long as I can, with the last MBS version that will work with it. I will use the same code files with the latest Xojo and keep a common code base. I just want to be sure that when you move on and drop 10.4/5/PPC support, that last version doesn't have important bugs in it that should be fixed but never will, and that newer features are mostly dependant on things you are wrapping that depend on 107+ things anyway. Why can't you keep a "last version" copy around, so if there's any decidedly important things that come up, you could spend some time fixing/or including it, and you'd update that as a branch? You wouldn't be maintaining it and it would only be for very legitimate things. Don't close the book forever - it doesn't have to be closed. >When PPC support is no longer needed, it may be worth to move the minimum >target for OS X from 10.4 to 10.6. For 64-bit, we already use 10.7 as target >and for Cocoa 10.5. Using 10.6 for all of those could simplify coding. >Finally if downloads for Real Studio go down further, the rbx plugin format is >at question. I considered already to write a converter to convert Xojo plugins >to rbx plugins, so users in need of those plugins could do conversion >themselves. I would no longer need to upload those plugins. >What do you guys think about such changes? >PS: If you still use Real Studio, please use latest 15.4 plugins. They still >work with REALbasic 2006r4 and newer! Garth Hjelte Sampler User _______________________________________________ Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list [email protected] https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info
