Re: Terminal application compatibility

Mike wrote:
> Oh what a mess. Well well. Thanks for pointing it out. Backward
> compatibility doesn't seem to be OS X biggest strength. In fact it
> seems to be a real pain.

be careful what you wish for. requiring slavish backward compatibility leads
to a moribund operating system, layers and layers of cruft, and little or no
innovation. apple was revitalized when they were finally willing to declare
macos9 and earlier to be dead, dead, dead. the wailing and gnashing of teeth
amongst the mac old-timers was almost deafening, but it had to be done. in
fact, apple would have been in better shape if it had been done five years
earlier.

setting up xcode to use the SDK for an earlier OS is not that difficult, you
just didn't know about it. there is certainly no OS ever invented that
doesn't have a few similar nooks and crannies that you have to learn about the
hard way.
.

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