Leopard soon to be a virtually forced upgrade?
Just a quick headsup for those mac users who are not particularly excited about upgrading their OS:
Boatloads of Leopard-only developer environment improvements will likely result in many applications releasing new versions that will no longer work in Tiger (10.4). If you’d like to keep your apps up to date, you’ll have to upgrade to Leopard.
Specifically:
- Objective C 2.0 has been released and it looks like a number of important improvements, such as automatic garbage collection, won’t work under Tiger.
- Core Animation makes it easy to add any number of shiny gimmicks to your app. Core Animation only works on Leopard though.
EDIT: Also check out Matt Gemmell’s partial list of 43 leopard-only development features - use any of those and your application becomes Leopard only.
Personally I wasn’t planning on switching until a suitable version of java 6 is released for OS X Leopard, but possibly I’ll be forced into switching sooner than I planned.
(Of course, Cristiano already switched - that’s his personal copy of Leopard above. He’ll write about his experiences installing Leopard soon.)
Cristiano Betta http://cristianobetta.com/
October 27th, 2007I just LOVE the box, don’t you?
Kars http://leapfrog.nl
October 27th, 2007@Cristiano: Khoi Vinh thinks otherwise: “I’m not going to pull my punches here: it’s cheesey as heck. That’s right, I said cheesey.”
alper http://www.alper.nl
October 27th, 2007I think it’s pretty cheesy as well. Black with funky colors; poor taste and design.
Cristiano Betta http://cristianobetta.com/
October 27th, 2007You know it’s a shiny background, right? It looks like the X floats on the background. I think it actually looks nice.